Goddess Crown by Shade Lapite EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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THE FOREST
THE SUN WOULDN’T SET FOR ANOTHER FEW HOURS, BUT EVENING came quickly
in the forest, and Aunty had made Kalothia promise to be back at a decent
time so they could enjoy her age-day meal. This last one and I am done
here, she promised silently.
The scent of loamy earth filled her nose and the warm air bathed her skin.
It had been a beautiful day. As though the forest knew she would be leaving
in a few hours and had put on a show to wish her well.
She braced her feet, sighted her arrow, pulled the rawhide string back,
and released. The arrow sliced through the air. The hare keeled over, dead
before it knew it had been hit.
Kalothia strode over to the body, whispered a prayer to the Goddess,
thanking her for the blessing, then added the hare to a hunting bag that
already contained two squirrels and a grouse. Her vervet monkey, Ye-Ye,
swung down from a tree branch and landed in his favorite spot on her
shoulder. She’d rescued him after his mother was killed by a snake when he
was only a few days old. Under her doting care, he’d matured into a
mischievous creature who never listened and never left her side.
“Are you done?” Clarit called from her perch on a boulder. She slapped
at a mosquito and sighed.
“I am.” It comforted Kalothia to know she’d be leaving Aunty and
Teacher with a fully stocked provision room. Though Aunty clicked her
tongue and grumbled about the unseemliness of Kalothia hunting, they all
knew there’d be little meat on the table if she didn’t. Teacher was unskilled
at anything beyond his books, and Aunty’s simple traps only caught the
smallest forest animals. Kalothia was glad to use her weapons training to
supplement their meals, Goddess knew she’d never had to use the training
to fight off intruders. She knew she was worrying unnecessarily; Clarit
could also hunt when she was gone. In their practice combat sessions, her
bodyguard wielded her cudgel with lethal precision. Kalothia had no doubt
the woman could provide game for the table.
Except there’d be no reason for Clarit to remain in the forest once
Kalothia was gone, she reminded herself. Clarit would rejoin her army unit
wherever they were stationed and probably breathe a sigh of relief that her
annual three-month tour of duty protecting a minor royal in the middle of a
strange forest was finally over.
“This way!” Kalothia called to Clarit, deciding on a shorter route back to
the house.
Clarit grunted unhappily but followed.
When she’d been younger, Kalothia had enjoyed teasing her bodyguards
by choosing the most difficult routes whenever she was allowed out of the
house. She knew every log, every bush, every beehive, every alcove—it
was impossible for her to get lost. The delight of that had waned eventually.
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