Knight’s Oath by Juliette Caruso EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Juliette Caruso
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An Arrival
“Yes, I understand.” Eliana clasped her hands in front of her. “But
there aren’t any other rooms available, on the other side of the
hall?”
“None that have been cleaned, my lady.” The maidservant bobbed a
quick curtsey and returned to the narrow bed, tucking crisp sheets beneath
the mattress with practiced speed. She’d halted the task to answer Eliana’s
question, as if it were impossible to do two things at once.
“I see,” Eliana muttered to herself. The servant didn’t offer to start
cleaning the other room, so Eliana shifted her weight awkwardly and then
sighed.
She walked to the only window and pushed open the wooden shutters to
see how bad it would be. Though the garden view was pleasant, the stone
wall was thick, the window woefully deep. It also faced north, a poor
prospect for light. The other side of the hall would have been much better.
Perhaps she could put her plants in the garden once it got a little warmer.
Eliana turned around at the sound of shuffling feet and grunting. Two
more maids staggered into the small room, Eliana’s wooden trunk between
them. She could hear them bickering under their breath as they walked:
“careful, left—no, my left—.”
With a start, she sucked in her stomach and inched around them, passing
into the hall. Eliana’s long carriage ride had made her tired, and being tired
had made her rude, and there was a pile of luggage at the end of the hall
that belonged to her. She had no business staring out a window and
thinking about spring, not when there were others doing her work. They’d
think she was horribly lazy, and very in the way.
The end of the hall marked an invisible boundary. Men approached the
other side, setting down clothing bags, potted plants, and small boxes of
goods. Maids picked up the luggage and transported it down the Rose Hall,
where men were forbidden, and into Eliana’s room.
She was glad of the rule, Eliana thought as she stooped to pick up the
ceramic pot of feverfew. Men were a novelty, after a decade in a convent
school, with no romance apart from that stirred up by books and her
imagination. She was curious—indeed, she had no choice but to be—but
she’d heard stories of warning, too. A little privacy of quarters seemed
prudent. Moving into the palace was terrifying enough as it was.
The plant in her arms didn’t look like much, not coming off winter. She’d
trimmed it short and covered it with dirt so the roots could sleep through the
cold. If she looked odd to the servants, carrying a painted pot of dirt to her
room, Eliana didn’t notice. Such things were ordinary at Beinloc, and so
they seemed ordinary to her.
She found her room only because the door was open. The bed was
finished, the trunk at the foot of it. The bedmaker was hanging up dresses in
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