Buongiorno 🙂
Attualmente mi trovo in vacanza in Grecia quindi ringrazio Kia per la disponibilità nel pubblicare questo post sui vari social.
Oggi vi propongo un estratto di un libro che ho letto poco fa, il secondo di una trilogia che mi sta piacendo abbastanza. Mi manca ancora da leggere l’ultimo volume, ma cercherò di recuperare al più presto.
Voi li avete letti? Vi sono piaciuti?
Kestrel had plans of her own. That night, she wiped her forehead clean of its engagement mark and tied a scarf over her hair. She pulled on the rough blue-and-white work dress and searched for a pair of comfortable shoes.
When she caught a glimpse of herself in a mirror she hesitated. Her features looked somehow smaller. She was too pale.
You disobeyed me, she heard the emperor say.
“No” doesn’t exist anymore, only “yes,” said her father and the captain of the guard in one voice.
But:
You are better than this, Arin said, and then she heard her own voice, calling out the highest bid to buy him. She heard the calm, cultured tones she had used to persuade the emperor to poison the eastern horses. Guilt swelled inside her.
Kestrel left her suite. She kept her head down and her pace brisk.
No one saw Lady Kestrel. Aristocrats in the halls didn’t even glance at her. Servants did, but saw someone familiar yet unrecognizable, which wasn’t strange in a palace staffed with hundreds of servants and slaves.
She was only a maid. If her step was a little too proud, it went unnoticed. If she occasionally looked lost in the servants’ quarters, it was shrugged off as the problem of a new girl.
The maid tightened her scarf. She found her way out one of the back kitchen yards. She stepped past palace guards, who ignored her. Though women not in the military weren’t supposed to walk alone, few people cared if a maid broke the rules. She was beneath notice.
Kestrel walked into the frozen city.Chapter 16 – THE WINNER’S CRIME di Marie Rutkoski
