Alwy finds Iylaine in the tower room
Iylaine leaned into the corner of the stuffy tower room. She looked at her hands, tinted green by the light that came in through the colored glass of the windows, and tried to remember the color they had when she sat beneath the trees, and the light had come filtering through the leaves. It was too green here. She thought the windows should rather be blue, but the Duke liked green. She would remember to look at her hands the next time she went to the King’s castle—the windows in the nursery were blue.
But more wrong than the light was the air. There was no breeze at all, and the July sun falling on the wooden roof made the air get hotter and hotter as the morning wore on, and it seemed as if the room were getting more and more tightly filled with air. She thought that if she stayed here much longer, she would suffocate, or be crushed.
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