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Even in her delirium, my lover smells the offering meal cooking and sees my half-full pack. She begs me not to go. It’s a journey lovers and pilgrims take—to exchange vows or to petition Mother. The paths to the mountain shift with their travelers’ intentions, and we were much younger when we traveled there to be wed.
8. One account, however, insists that the Queen loved only one person, a member of another Court whom the account does not identify, and remained faithful to this person for her entire reign and even her life. Raidne Seiren considers this account fanciful; Tyronoe Ablach, in an otherwise exhaustive account, does not even mention it. Adele Lanyon Dormir, however, has argued that this passion may be the only explanation for the Queen's actions before and during the battle.
Men from her kureç came; men from elsewhere in her clan came; men from all the clans of Vraszan came, and some say even foreigners from beyond the lands watered by the Dežera. Her father the kureniç fretted to himself, for Clever Natalya had given them a year and a day—and if no one passed her test, who would lead his people after him? But to his daughter he had given his word, that she should be the one to choose, and Natalya disliked losing.
Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya by M.A. Carrick. Notes on The Seventh Battle Of The Queen Of The Ruby Mists by Mari Ness. BCS 307: Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya by M.A. Carrick.
“Thank you, Mr. Drakon.” The smile hurts her teeth, but she pulls it across her mouth like a shield. She knows too well that Drakon prefers grace to sullenness. “I’ll be back soon,” she says, instead of saying she dreams each night of warming her frost-chapped hands over the burning wreckage of everything he owns. These are the dreams of a fool, and Viktoriya aspires to become something other than a fool. After all, she is one of the things Drakon owns. She cannot burn him down until she is free.