Chapter 10I did not go to Tristan. I went instead to the top of the tower. Though open to the sky, it was the most secure place I could think of, the place where no one would come—for who had reason, with Braith too weak to fly, and Rindargeth gone?
I sat with my back to the parapet, knees drawn to my chest, and found myself worrying Rindargeth’s mittens in my hands.
Fact the first. Attraction is not love, I said firmly to myself.
Fact the second. All my firmness faded to a terrified whisper. You are attracted to Braith.
I sat for some minutes, breathing carefully, forcing myself to become accustomed to these two facts, and flee from neither. My hands shook. They seemed to belong to someone else.
Fact the third. You are to marry Tristan, who is a good man who loves you, and whom you l
