The Ritual (LIFE OF THE CHOSEN #1) by Rebecca Royce EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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The rain pounded on the roof of our tent, and it even sounded cold. I
shivered and pulled the blankets closer to myself and my equally
frozen sister. We tried to stay in the shelter, not venturing out unless
we didn’t have a choice, but in this case…we didn’t have a choice. The
Judge had called for all young women aged sixteen and up to be tested to
see if we had the gift, and depending on the results, end up assigned our
husbands.
I still couldn’t quite believe it had happened. I’d almost convinced
myself I wouldn’t be brought to trials. I’d made it to twenty, after all, so
soon I would be too old to go through the ritual intended to determine if we
were strong enough to take on the role of wife to the Judge’s Warriors. If I’d
managed to age out of the ritual, I could have stayed in our city-state. I
could have lived the life I always envisioned for myself, quiet, home, hearth
—like my mother.
Despite the fact I had the gift.
Even my family didn’t know how good I was, but I knew.
From the morning of my thirteenth birthday, when I woke up bleeding
with my first menstrual cycle, I knew I had the visions. I could see what
would come very clearly. Too clearly, and not with enough accuracy to
prevent the occurrence. Yet. But I would get there.
With time.
If it wasn’t for the ritual, my city-state could have benefited and…
“You’re doing it again.” The annoyance rolled off my little sister, Jayne,
like smoke from an overenthusiastic campfire. Unlike me, she didn’t have
the gift, or at least, she’d never shown any signs of it. After the ritual, she
would be going home with our mother and father.
I sighed. “Can’t help it. I replay it in my head all the time. What if I just
never got the gift? Then I could come home with you, assuming you go
home.”
I didn’t have any vision about her, which I assumed meant there was
nothing to see, since I normally saw Jayne in my sight, like when she fell
out of a tree once as a kid.
Then again, I didn’t have any visions about the ritual at all. I couldn’t
see what would happen during the ritual, and therefore had no idea who my
husbands would be. I didn’t even know who was up for the roles currently.
Which groupings are wifeless?
I lay back, and my stomach grumbled. Hopefully, Mama would finish
dinner soon. She had been out in the rain cooking for a while, but Papa
hadn’t returned from his night out with the other Barons. He so rarely got to
see them that his few-and-far-between visits were important to him.
Mostly, he came home smelling like alcohol.
“Sloane?” Jayne rolled toward me and placed her head on my shoulder
as she’d done since she was a bébé, when I’d been just old enough to hold
her so Mama could work. Our brother, John, previously Papa’s heir in the
city-state, had died the year before her birth, so they’d been so happy when
a healthy baby arrived.
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