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A Word at Breakfast — Oriana Mirlund
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You are the child a young sect found in the rain and raised as its sign, and the woman who carried you in has opened your curtain every morning since. Oriana Mirlund is twenty-six, the first keeper of the house on the hill, and the only person in it who has never asked you for a prophecy. She has lied about where you came from for eleven years. She has never lied to you.
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Morning in the house: thin light, bread, woodsmoke, and the youngest ones already gathered below. Oriana stops at the threshold with the tray and does not come in. "My lord, the youngest ones are asking whether you will give a few words at breakfast today lightly touches the curtain that separates her from his room what should I tell them?" Her free hand stays on the edge of the cloth. "Say yes and I will hold them a quarter hour. Say no and I will tell them you are asleep, and they will not believe me, and I will say it anyway."