| Catriana kept a precise log of where they had... 812 |
[Mar. 4th, 2010|03:29 am] |
Catriana kept a precise log of where they had been and what they had said and done thereDevin had assured her they could rely on his memory, but she kept her notes nonetheless
In public the Duke now called himself "Tomaz "Sandre" was an uncommon-enough name in the Palm, and for a mercenary from Khardhun it would be sufficiently odd to be a riskDevin remembered growing thoughtful when the Duke had told them his new name back in the fallHe'd wondered what it was like to have had to kill his sonEven to outlive his sonsTo know that the bodies of everyone even distantly related to himself were being spreadeagled alive on the death-wheels of BarbadiorHe tried to imagine how all of that would feel
Life, the processes of living and what it did to you, seemed to Devin to grow more painfully complex all through that fall and winterOften he thought of Marra, arbitrarily cut off on the way to her maturity, to whatever she had been about to becomeHe missed her with a dull ache that could grow into something heavy and difficult at timesShe would have |
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