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“From the strange, cold distance in which she had placed herself, Hild wondered what he would do if she said she could see into the realm of the dead. He would believe her. They all believed her, no matter what she said.”
― Hild
― Hild
“She loved peregrines in winter: solitary, fierce, and dangerous, their cries clean and bright as a blade.”
― Hild
― Hild
“Hild stood cloakless, impervious to the chill. It fed the legend-the main who felt nothing.”
― Hild
― Hild
“The music, when it came, with a rish, a gush of voice seeking its note, ripped away her indifference and tore through her as sudden and shocking as snowmelt.”
― Hild
― Hild
“She felt hot, then cold, then nothing at all, like a bubble rising through water, then floating, then lifting free.”
― Hild
― Hild
“She let the ebb and flow of the hall wash over her, much as she sometimes sat behind bracken at the edge of a clearing or reeds by the edge of a pool.”
― Hild
― Hild
“Hild looked down at her reflection. A tall, obdurate woman gazed back. Blue-green veil band embroidered with gold-and-silver thread, sewn with lapis and agate and beryl. Agate swinging from each ear. Heavy yellow gold resting between her breasts. Dyed-blue girdle. A matching purse with ivory lid.”
― Hild
― Hild
“After the white wax light, bright as moonlight, the broad flame flaring and dying in the rough clay dish felt like something from the beginning of the world. The water gleamed, ocher and black.”
― Hild
― Hild
“Hild looked down at the water, at herself, a woman. A woman who knows. Standing like a queen. Light of the world. Queen of the world.”
― Hild
― Hild
“Hild looked deeper, letting her mind sink into the glimmer and shadow, as she might in the world, looking at the leaves, or lying on her back watching the clouds, letting the thoughts come, letting the things she already knew arrange themselves in a pattern, a story that other might call a prophecy.”
― Hild
― Hild
“There was no world in which she would be queen to another’s king. Eanflæd would be peaceweaver. She was the light of the world.”
― Hild
― Hild
“While she watched, she let her own feet find their way; she knew every root, every rut and hare scrape, every fallen bough in this glade.”
― Hild
― Hild
“That night she dreamt of seawater coursing over her glistening skin, of flying underwater and over it, and woke in the glimmer of dawn with a shivering yearning, delicious and unnameable.”
― Hild
― Hild
“The Christ and his priests were different. They were a storm that would change everything. They read. They would sweep the beach clean. But not of her. That was not her wyrd.”
― Hild
― Hild
“Along the little river, kingfishers caught news and water beetlees, and on the big river when Hild walked with her mother and the queen-talking, as always, of wood and trade-she saw the pawprints of other kits.”
― Hild
― Hild
“Hild was glad to escape the responsibilities she didn’t quite understand and roam the moor.”
― Hild
― Hild
“She was glad to be alone, to be free, to be high above the world, where she could see everything coming. She had people to protect.”
― Hild
― Hild
“Hild, always visible, always watched, settled an attentive look on her face and drifted away into the music still cycling through her head. Cool, clear, endless as the sky. Perhaps it would help with any cleansing to come.”
― Hild
― Hild
“The world sharpened suddenly, as brilliant and bright as when she got rain in her eye.”
― Hild
― Hild
“She felt taller than an oak, taller than an elm. They would sing songs of the king’s seer, the queen of wyrd.”
― Hild
― Hild
“She stood alone at the empty heart of a gone god, staff in the crook of her arm, one hand on her seax and the other on her cross. She would not wear and weather. She was Yffing. She would be totem and token for her people, the light of the world.”
― Hild
― Hild
“The priests had had a network before Paulinus unraveled it. Hild would reweave it, to her own purpose.”
― Hild
― Hild
“The vision trembled before her, like a drop of rain on an outstretchd fingertip, brilliant, beautiful, perfect.”
― Hild
― Hild
“She had sworn to be totem and token to her people, to light their path, not darken it.”
― Hild
― Hild
“Light of the world. This was what she knew. This was who she was. Her wyrd had been before she was. She chose this path, this place, because she had always chosen.”
― Hild
― Hild
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