All This Twisted Glory by Tahereh Mafi EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Tahereh Mafi
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Diversity & Multicultural Fiction
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“WHAT ARE YOU – ARE you eating an orange?”
Kamran turned as he spoke, his face taut with dismay, to study the
young woman seated in the night sky beside him. For hours now they’d
been soaring through the heavens, and whereas he’d only grown frigid with
disquiet, Miss Huda half reclined atop her magical bird, staring up at the
stars and eating a piece of fruit for all the world as if she were the heroine in
some impassioned novel.
“Yes, why?” She’d paused in the act of lifting a section of orange to her
mouth and suddenly startled. “Oh! Forgive me, Your Highness – would you
care for a piece?” She held out her sticky palm, upon which sat a sticky
wedge, and Kamran recoiled.
She’d offered him the fruit she’d been about to put in her own mouth. It
was as if the girl had no manners at all.
“No,” he said curtly.
How Miss Huda had procured the citrus, or why she’d thought to tuck
away an orange in the midst of so much mayhem, he’d never know, for he’d
no intention of –
“I filched a few from a passing tray before we left the palace,” she
supplied, pausing briefly to chew and swallow. A wash of starlight
illuminated her artless movements, her eyes glassy as she stared at him with
ill-concealed admiration. “I hope that’s all right. I grow a little light-headed
when I take too long between meals.”
Kamran made a noncommittal sound, turning away.
Of all things, he’d not meant to encourage conversation. All this time
their unlikely troop had been little able to converse – the constant noise and
turbulence of their journey making long chats impossible – but the
headwind had finally settled, and the relief among their quintet was nearly
palpable. The stunning winged beasts that carried them drew together in a
tight formation as they began their slow descent into Tulan. Not long before
they touched land.
Meanwhile, Kamran’s mind was waterlogged with fear and weariness.
Grateful as he was for the extraordinary circumstances of his escape, the
shine of their journey had begun to dull under the steady scour of his
thoughts. He’d no interest in holding forth with anyone.
“Oh – can I have some?” came Omid’s eager Feshtoon. “I’m so
hungry.”
The boy had recently decided to communicate exclusively in Feshtoon
while the others responded in Ardanz. This new system of communication
had lately given their conversations an interesting texture, developed only
after the child had discovered, to his supreme delight, that all in attendance
were fluent in Feshtoon.
Even, apparently, Miss Huda.
Kamran had been surprised to discover the illegitimate miss was
properly educated. He knew the assumption made him seem cruel, but
neither could he condemn himself for the thought; it was, quite frankly,
bizarre for someone of her uncertain station to be brought up with a
governess. Then again, her father was known to be an eccentric.
“I’d love a piece as well, if you’ve enough to spare,” added Deen, the
apothecarist. “It smells heavenly.”
This much was true.
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