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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Chapter 20

IT HAPPENED SO quickly: We were dreaming, and then we were awake. We were safe, and then we weren’t. We were nameless, forgotten, hidden away in time, and then I was Corporal Owen Mallory again, and you were—

“Sir Una,” said the voice. You flinched from the sound of your own name. The line between your brows returned, harshly drawn. The voice said, more softly, “It’s been too long.”

It sounded as if she meant it. As if she’d missed you, these nine years, and longed to look at you. You kept your eyes resolutely, almost desperately, on mine; it occurred to me that you’d run away from her without ever once facing her.

A sigh, from above us. “Up, now—carefully. I’ve told these boys you’re witches, and heavily implied cannibalism. They’re jumpy.”