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THE QUEEN WITH TWO SHADOWS
Chapter 1 THE GIRL WITHOUT A WOLF
s together so many times that the
y. She hid them behind her back, then brought them forward again, then
ple who had never been made to wait. Near the front, a boy from the Ironmere line let his nails darken into claws and dragged them down the s
eraphina. She had
raw an eye. It scratched at her collarbone. Across the hall, a woman in sapphire satin glanced her way
ed at her shoulder with a honey cake in each fist, curls escapi
ca
g to stare, make them work for it. Chin up. Higher. Higher still
ed enormous in her own ears. She glanced around. No one had noti
until a shadow fe
he way a man checks a horse before a sale, found a loose st
laced," he said. "S
s, Unc
the families who would not meet them.
her fist. Mira took it from her, wiped her fingers clean with a napkin that seemed
ke on his ow
Mi
y it quiet
, with a few additions, until the corner of Se
tone was cool against her forehead. She breathed in through her nose, out through h
skin. Howls rose into the dark, ragged and thrilled. Seraphina had stood in the middle with her bare feet going numb, waiting. The moon crossed the sky. Her skin
to her. That had be
er shoes, and found a plate of cold bread on her be
ny. Even her. Especially her, Rowan had said, because her absence would be
e shame, one small win
. She could not mak
. Talk drained out of the hall. In the king's absence the royal priestess climbed the dais in robes th
slippers, the
in a far room. She looked down. Her pale reflection stared u
r. She knew it the way she knew when someone was reading over her s
t?" Mira wh
thi
at word early. It was
rs burned their ordinary orange and the wolf returned to the ranks, relieved or crushed, hard to tell which. Th
ist shortened. Her pulse climbed into her throat and lodged there. The hum under her fee
se, not me
Seraphina squeezed back. Her friend's palm was sweating t
fixed on the dais, not on her. He had already decided how
th of parchment. She hesitated, as
hina
curious. Someone
he had not decided to move. Her body had simp
n the hall
e, something whis
