Caspian’s furious, on her behalf, and a part of her is wide-eyed and startled while another part thinks he must not understand - and yet another part is fiercely glad.
“After my da’ died - after he were murdered,” she corrects. “I were but eleven then. And after - first they took the horses, and then more and more besides, until there were nothing left, and when I were old enough - all the time my aunt kept at me, telling me that it were an old tradition, that we’d have everything back as gifts and payment, that wouldn’t I love to have a baby, if only I’d… and so eventually I let her make the contract. I told thee I weren’t as good as thee thought I were.”
She can’t meet his eyes, doesn’t know how to tell him how Cord would sit in the kitchen counting the gold coins over and over again, her avarice and the hate in the way she looked at her.
(Miss Oh-So-Young and Pretty)
“But she knew, what they’d done to my father, her brother, and never said a word, only hounded me into something he’d have hated and I hated, too. I didn’t kennit, then. Not until near the end, when she slipped.”
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“After my da’ died - after he were murdered,” she corrects. “I were but eleven then. And after - first they took the horses, and then more and more besides, until there were nothing left, and when I were old enough - all the time my aunt kept at me, telling me that it were an old tradition, that we’d have everything back as gifts and payment, that wouldn’t I love to have a baby, if only I’d… and so eventually I let her make the contract. I told thee I weren’t as good as thee thought I were.”
She can’t meet his eyes, doesn’t know how to tell him how Cord would sit in the kitchen counting the gold coins over and over again, her avarice and the hate in the way she looked at her.
(Miss Oh-So-Young and Pretty)
“But she knew, what they’d done to my father, her brother, and never said a word, only hounded me into something he’d have hated and I hated, too. I didn’t kennit, then. Not until near the end, when she slipped.”