Authors: Sherwood Smith
Treason's Shore
Table of Contents
Also by Sherwood Smith:
INDA
THE FOX
KING’S SHIELD
TREASON’S SHORE
THE FOX
KING’S SHIELD
TREASON’S SHORE
Copyright © 2009 by Sherwood Smith.
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Acknowledgments
My heartfelt thanks to Hallie O’Donovan, Francesca Forrest, Kate El liott, Shweta Narayan and Faye Bi for their generosity with their time and insight in beta reading, to Tammy Meatzie for her patience and generosity in proofreading for me, and to Gregory Feeley for the title suggestion.
Anyone interested in extra information, there is a wiki full of Sarto rias-deles geekery here:
http://s-d.newsboyhat.co.uk/
including a “what happened after” timeline.
http://s-d.newsboyhat.co.uk/
including a “what happened after” timeline.
It’s difficult to pin down music that is close to what one hears, but there are three pieces that can provide a vector: the soundtrack of
Amistad
, “Chale Chalo,” from
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
, and “Azeem O Shahen Shahenshah” from
Jodhaa Akbar
, as well as some cuts from the Scottish band Albannach.
Amistad
, “Chale Chalo,” from
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
, and “Azeem O Shahen Shahenshah” from
Jodhaa Akbar
, as well as some cuts from the Scottish band Albannach.
PART ONE
Chapter One
T
HE arched window over Tdor’s bed glowed with the faint blue of impending dawn. She rose, pushing down the covers on the inside so no cold air would disturb Inda, her husband of one night. Inda slept on, an unmoving mound under the quilt.
HE arched window over Tdor’s bed glowed with the faint blue of impending dawn. She rose, pushing down the covers on the inside so no cold air would disturb Inda, her husband of one night. Inda slept on, an unmoving mound under the quilt.
Below, as the sun began to crest the eastern hills, Inda’s mother Fareas-Iofre walked through the castle and to stable, courtyard, and garden as people shuffled out to begin their day. She spoke to each, requesting quiet movements so that Inda could sleep.
Many looked up at Tdor’s bedroom window, smiling at the memory of Inda’s wedding the night before. Others remembered how old he had looked on his long-awaited arrival home. Not old, no, but hard, though he had just turned twenty-one—hard and covered with scars. They picked up their tools with care, and spoke in lowered voices, if at all.
Tdor was too preoccupied to notice the unusual quiet. She stood for a short time, looking down at Inda’s sleeping form. Her palm ached with her desire to caress him, but she knew he needed rest.
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