Richard Carver Acquires a Son-in-Law: An EpilogueRichard Carver, venturing out of his lighthouse on a cold and anxious afternoon shortly before the Queen’s arrival, did not know how to speak to his son.
Jeremiah was busy. In love, talking to mermen and princes, organizing the future. Taking the direction of the world upon broad shoulders and delighted about it. Arm in arm with Cadence Bell, and Richard did not know how to feel about that, if he should feel anything about that. If he had the right to.
He liked his tower. His lamp. His solitary well-worn rooms and plain walls and straightforward furnishings, everything in its place.
The world made sense that way. Orderly. Not chaotic. Not demanding that he talk, be social, decipher the mysterious arcane code of emotions and expressions an
