A Ship of Bones and Teeth Omnibus by Karina Halle EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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TEN YEARS LATER
“THERE YE GO, PRINCESS,” Daphne, my lady-in-waiting says as
she finishes with my hair. “Pretty as always. Fit for all the king’s men, I say.”
I peer at myself in the mirror, seeing yet not seeing my reflection, and
manage a stiff smile. “Thank you Daphne,” I say quietly, my fingers going to
Nill’s tooth hanging from a dainty silver chain. I’ll remove it in a moment,
knowing how irate Aerik gets when he sees it on me.
“I wish it wasn’t so drab and dark in here so we could get a better look at
ye,” she says with a sniff, looking around my chambers. “Just the fire and a
couple of sconces expected to light the whole room. I suppose not all royal
palaces are the same, are they now? This is nothing like the one back home,
Yer Highness.”
Prince Ferdinand’s palace might not be as grand as the one Aerik and I
occupy at Vemmetofte, but this place is on the other side of the world, and
not only that, the prince doesn’t even live here most of the time. Aerik and
Ferdinand have far too much in common, both of them spending their years
galivanting around the world and wasting money instead of having anything
to do with their perspective families, other than asking for more funds.
In Ferdinand’s case, he’s settled here in Butuan for a few months out of
the year, the rest of the time he’s in different corners of the empire belonging
to King Philip V, his father. Aerik and I have been on our royal ship,
Elephanten, our journeys not too dissimilar. The only difference is that we
are expected back home this year by order of our King, Prince Aerik’s father,
Frederick IV. I had been expecting us to continue our journey around the
globe, following the trade winds up and across the ocean to the colonies, but
duty finally called for my husband, and in turn, for me.
To say I’m disappointed is an understatement. I had hoped that when the
ship reached land on the other side of the mighty ocean, I might be able to
find my way back home, even though it would be useless for me as a human.
Still, I spent days and nights dreaming of diving overboard, swimming deep
down into the depths until I entered the Kingdom of Limonos. Even if I could
only be under for as long as my lungs would let me, I just wanted a glimpse
of my father and my sisters again. A chance to tell them that I’m sorry, that I
had made a grave mistake, and that I loved them and would do anything to be
with them.
At the very least I could find Edonia and make her reverse the spell. If
she didn’t, I was prepared to kill her. Oh, I imagined killing her many times
over the last ten years, especially after a row with Aerik, when I felt helpless
and trampled by my own bad decisions. I imagined what it would be like to
have claws and razor-sharp teeth again, to sink them into her jugular and tear
out her pretty throat, the water filling with blood.
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