Chapter Forty-Six
Lind
Lind realized she was whispering beneath her breath … “Three, four, five … Stop! Just stop!”
She clasped her hands to stop them from touching her toes as she counted. Tears leaked from her eyes.
Everyone was so kind, so caring, and she knew their love was genuine, but the cold lump inside her heart was a bottomless black well and there was nothing beyond it.
She smiled through tears as she recalled Huldar’s story. The way he had woven charms with sparks and snowflakes was one of the most beautiful things she had seen. But he would never be hers. And all the while as the story was unfolding she had felt the Gok’s eyes boring into her. She had agreed to let him enter the tent. It would show the Uri’madu, her family, that there was no need to worry. She was strong
