Chapter 63 - Unfulfilled
Almost as if to save her from having to speak again Master Hovels voice cut into the conversation suddenly severing her next sentence into silence.
"Jacob leave my Novice alone." Hovel suddenly barked in an amused voice. Then Hovel grumbled as if he couldn't see Ann's world crumbling beneath her feet. Motioning to her with an impatient air the Master snapped. "Here Ann, help me!"
Help yourself!
She almost snapped back, but instead she crossed the floor dutifully and took his arm into her grasp. She pulled him from the chair, and grasped his forearm as he rose from his seat with the agonized pop of his knees and a tremble of frailty across his body. She swallowed a dark sneer. His frailty repulsed and angered her where before, merely days ago, it had saddened he
