The Everlasting

The Everlasting

Author: Alix E. Harrow Listening Length: 13h 29m
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From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart. Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s grea...

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I WASN’T SHOCKED or dismayed. I wasn’t anything, really, except tired, and a little chagrined, as if I had fallen for a rather cruel joke. I wanted to leave. I wanted to fall asleep, or wake up, or run away.

But the first queen who was also the former Minister of War, a paper doll of a woman switching from one costume to the next, looked down at me and said, quietly, “On your feet, Corporal.”

I stood up.

A flock of attendants descended, cooing and fretting as they shuffled me out of the hall. I followed them placidly, holding my hands out from my sides so they did not accidentally brush against my body.