A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Samantha Shannon
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Coming of Age Fantasy
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
East
First, the waking in the dark. It had taken her years to become her own
rooster, but now she was an instrument of gods. More than any change of
light, it was their will that roused her.
Second, immersion in the ice pool. Fortified, she returned to her room and
dressed in six layers of clothing, each made to withstand the cold. She tied
back her hair and pressed down every strand with wax, to keep it from
blinding her in the wind. That could be deadly on the mountain.
She had caught a chill from the pool the first time – shivered in her room
for hours, runny-nosed and red of cheek. That was when she was a child, too
fragile for the tests of worship.
Now Dumai could endure it, as she endured the elevation of the temple.
Mountain sickness had never touched her, for she was born into these lofty
halls, higher than most birds were hatched. Kanifa had once joked that if she
ever went down to the city, she would keel over, breathless and faint, as
climbers did when they ventured this high.
Earth sickness, her mother had agreed. Best stay up here, my kite, where
you belong.
Third, writing down the dreams she remembered. Fourth, a meal to give
her strength. Fifth, stepping into her boots on the porch, and from there to the
courtyard, still mantled in night, where her mother waited to lead the
procession.
Next, the lighting of the woodfall, sweet bark from logs that had lain on
the seabed. It burned with smoke as clean as fog, and a scent like the world in
the wake of a storm.
In the gloom, wide awake, the bridge that crossed the gap between the
middle and third peaks. Then the long climb up the slopes, chanting in the
ancient tongue.
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