The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Samantha Shannon
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Sword & Sorcery Fantasy
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: February 26, 2019
East
The stranger came out of the sea like a water ghost, barefoot and wearing the
scars of his journey. He walked as if drunk through the haze of mist that
clung like spidersilk to Seiiki.
The stories of old said water ghosts were doomed to live in silence. That their
tongues had shriveled, along with their skin, and that all that dressed their
bones was seaweed. That they would lurk in the shallows, waiting to drag the
unwary to the heart of the Abyss.
Tané had not feared those tales since she was a small child. Now her dagger
gleamed before her, its curve like a smile, and she fixed her gaze on the
figure in the night.
When it called to her, she flinched.
The clouds released the moonlight they had hidden. Enough for her to see
him as he was. And for him to see her.
This was no ghost. It was an outsider. She had seen him, and he could not be
unseen.
He was sunburned, with hair like straw and a dripping beard. The smugglers
must have abandoned him to the water and told him to swim the rest of the
way. It was clear that he knew nothing of her language, but she understood
enough of his to know that he was asking for help. That he wanted to see the
Warlord of Seiiki.
Her heart was a fistful of thunder. She dared not speak, for to show she knew
his language was to forge a link between them, and to betray herself.
To betray the fact that just as she was now a witness to his crime, he was a
witness to hers.
She should be in seclusion. Safe behind the walls of the South House, ready
to rise, purified, for the most important day of her life. Now she was tainted.
Soiled beyond redemption. All because she had wanted to immerse herself in
the sea once more before Choosing Day.
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