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Over the next couple of days, she was frustrated that neither the professor nor Cade invited her to theher wrist She thought to ask the professor if she could go on her own, but a safe, private moment to do so never presented itself, since she saw him so rarely She supposed she could always sneak over to theso felt like it would violate the professor’s trust, and that was one thing she could not afford to lose She could not say for sure, but she did not believe Cade and the professor ventured to the e on Dr Silk’s road in the Old City, the professor did not want to be caught engaging in perilous behavior should any suspicion be flung in his direction
It was hard for her to know exactly as going on outside the house, except for whatever Luke told her when she visited Raven Close to a hundred , and rumor had it that an Inquisitor had arrived froations The nu the streets, he added, re, let on nothing, but he was quieter than usual during the rare ti to her the level of his concern Of Cade, she saw only gli she could do about it, so in the privacy of her bed cha into her mirror shard, but to no avail She spent hours in the professor’s library poring over his atlas of the e her oorld redrawn and transfors of loneliness and sorrow, but she resisted caving in to thee this future from the past
She could not help but stare at the portrait of Amberhill at the front of the book, with his aristocratic face rendered in flattering detail How did he come to be emperor? she wondered over and over How could he betray his king? She had never cared for his haughty ways, and while every aristocrat she had ever met vied and schemed for power, she had never sensed in Aood in Sacoridia to create this eot hoing about this future If she didn’t make it back? Then she’d e her falanced up from Amberhill’s portrait, startled to see Arhys one step into the library and staring at her
"What are you doing?" the girl deo away and htat the atlas of the e at pictures I bet you can’t even read"
"You’d lose" Karigan proved it to her by reading froolden hair "I can read very well Mr Harlowe says so I can write, too"
"I’m sure he’s correct"
"Bet I can write better than you"
"Perhaps you can"
Frustrated that Karigan didn’t challenge her, the girl stoly"
Just then Lorine paused by the doorway and looked in "There you are, Arhys Cook needs you in the kitchen"
Arhys gave Karigan one last contemptuous look that would have rivaled even one of Amberhill’s, and flounced out of the rooan was looking at "Ah, I used to spendof far off lands," she said with a san found it hard to believe, for she had traveled often, whether with one of her father’s ine being confined to one city
"Then I figured out that all the lands, the whole continent, and lots of islands besides, belong to the ean asked in surprise "Why?"
"I figured that since it was all the e the Capital, though It is supposed to be wondrous"
There was a knocking on the front door of the house, followed by the even footsteps of Grott the butler as he went to answer it
"I came to tell you," Lorine said, "that I saw Mistress dela Enfande’s carriage drawing up She’s coown the seaht blue, with threaded silver stars on the front panel of the bodice and sleeves that gliht Mistress dela Enfande had said that this would be her an wasn’t sure what --it fit e how stylish it was in regard to this time Maybe the neckline was lower, her throat revealed, and that as considered "daring" Regardless, the goas exquisite and lent her, she thought, an air of maturity
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