“How did her mother take the news of her pregnancy?” King Vintras’s family was probably none the wiser about he and Meina, but she could not hide that she’d slept with a man and was with child.
“She did not take it well. In fact, that was when Malora increased her efforts to attack Yardis and try to drive us away. Houses were set on fire, severed animal heads were hung from trees within the village, and Yardinians that got too close to the boundary had curses placed on them.”
“What kind of curses?” All this magic and mysticism in this world, not some parallel universe, fascinated me.
“Blindness, craziness... The most terrifying curse happened to a woman who chased her wandering child back within the boundaries. She returned to the village, terrified, and told of seeing Malora near a tre
