Deception's Pawn (Princesses of Myth)
“Dairine perched on the side of my bed in the dark and leaned on me.“Go to sleep, pest,” I grumbled, trying to get her off me. She seemed to have the magical ability to gain the bulk of a cow carcass at will.“No.” She shifted just enough to weigh as much as two cows, with a calf thrown in for good measure. “Not until you say you’ll talk to Lord Kian again.”“I’ll talk to Lord Kian again. There. I said it.”“Saying isn’t promising. Swear!”I made a mighty effort and flipped over, dumping my relentle...ss friend onto the floor. Dairine yelped and pelted me with all the nasty names she knew.“Shush, Dairine,” Ula commanded from her spot in the darkened room. “Too much noise and someone will tell Lady Lightning.”“You think she’ll leave her nice warm bed and punish us?” the black-haired girl sneered. “If she did, Maeve’s the only one who’d suffer.”“Just what she deserves,” Bryg put in. “Breaking poor Lord Kian’s heart so cruuuuuuuuuelly.” She uttered the last word as a melancholy tune and drew it out, up, down, and into a musical knot.MoreLess
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