Chapter 28. More of Knowledge and Healing

SAELYNA

I have never actually considered learning to knit or crochet or anything that requires me to sit still. Veesa has her way of convincing a person, though, and I have no idea how I’ve been able to sit here for the past thirty minutes or so, knitting a scarf. I’m not knitting anyway. Just fumbling with the wool and getting it all wrong.

We’re all seated in a circle as Veesa talks about the old days, when she was still a young woman like us, back when Halden was a large forest town known as Halden Woods. The other girls listen to her while they work, some even staring up while their hands move automatically, like machines.

“I fell in love with and married Tion. It was a time when wolvens were at peace and when Quindar was filled with a land of different folk that coexisted peacefully. He was a wolven lord, of the king’s court, and he owned this very land in fact.”

The girls murmur in awe. I wonder how old she must be. A hundred years, give or take.