Chapter 69

The Girl Who Was Nobody

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Somebody wrote a song in the ninth year and Eira loathes it.

It is a good song and it is sung badly in eleven packs and it gets almost everything wrong. It has her walking out of the courtyard in a blaze of light. It has Cassian on his knees. It has the wall at the west house coming down "at her word", which is precisely the thing she has spent twenty years explaining did not happen — she said nothing at all; it came down because something in her stood up without being asked, and that is the entire difference and the song loses it in a rhyme.