Iylaine decides to be alone
“Wulsy, I got a splinter,” Iylaine whimpered, holding out her hand to the groom.
“What were you doing?” he asked. “Climbing around the loft? Let me see.”
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Edris chattered on, but it was so difficult to speak when one spoke alone—and more so when one had the impression that no one was listening. Still, somebody had to say something.
She was only telling of Baldwin’s day. It truly was amazing how interesting a character such a small person could have, but it was also quite convenient that his father was so fond of the boy that everything he did seemed a marvel. Thus Baldwin was an inexhaustible source of topics for conversation, and certainly her most reliable.
He is not in the water
“Wake up! Wake up!” the voice coaxed in a whisper.
Someone was inside with him. Yet it didn’t sound like his father…
Perhaps it was the voice of the bear itself. Perhaps one could hear the bear speaking when one was in the belly of the bear. Perhaps a bear’s grumbling voice would sound like a whisper from down here.
Iylaine hears a familiar sound
“Wait, Gwynn, wait,” Iylaine called as they neared the hall. Gwynn slowed in her trot and turned to look back at her.
Iylaine always walked slowly through this end of the corridor. Her Da’s room was directly below. His Grace had laid a floor of smooth, finely trimmed boards over the coarse planks that had been there before, but neither these two layers of wood nor the chatter and bustle coming from the hall as the people gathered for dinner were enough to prevent her pointed ears from hearing the sound of her Da’s cough, if he coughed. They were not keen enough to detect the rattle of his breathing, but she was reassured if she heard a cough.
Gunnilda wonders something
Alwy sat hesitantly on the bed beside his wife, but she scarcely seemed to notice his arrival.
“Well, Gunnie, how are you?” he asked.
Sigefrith brings the two together
Leofric came up the stairs and stepped through the open door into the King’s study. “Evening, runt. Oh! my lord Baron.” He shook Theobald’s hand and then went to pour himself a cup of wine.
“Let’s go easy on that this evening,” Sigefrith suggested.
Alwy does not expect
“Well, Gunnie, I don’t know but I guess your fire’s getting low,” Alwy said. “You want me to stir it up some?”
Gunnilda did not answer.
Matilda meddles with the wrong man
Matilda looked up from the fire when she heard steps come down the far stairway and enter the hall. “Oh, Leofric!”
“Evening, Matilda. I didn’t think to find you still awake.”
Maud frightens Father Brandt
Queen Maud stood over the cradle in which her feverish little son lay coughing. Father Brandt crossed the room and came to stand beside her.
Colban coughed a while and then squirmed in discomfort, and Brandt saw that his face was hotly flushed and overspread with the rash. He had worsened.
Bertie is shaken awake
“Bertie, oh, Bertie.”
Someone was shaking him awake. He did not have windows in his little room, but he knew it could not yet be dawn. He felt as if he had only just gone to bed. In fact, he was rather certain he had only just gone to bed, for his cheek was still warm from the heat radiating from the chimney near the bed. His lord’s bedroom fire had not yet burned low.
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