Listra E-Book

Marie Aranas

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

She is the marked one. The twin princess who is ghastly to behold and was sent to the far province to live there and exist without haunting the dreams of the Queen mother. But she learns the dark arts and comes back with a cause for revenge and power.

Leseprobe

Marie Aranas

Listra

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Listra

 There were two princesses borne on a cold wintry night. The first who was birthed was beautiful with golden, flaxen hair and blue eyes. The second was the aberration. She was a considered a hideous sight. Her hair was already long and tangled . Even through her bloodied skin they could see she had a cold, pallid, gray hue and her face was marked, they say, by the devil himself. They all drew away from her…the midwives, the king and the queen mother.

But the twins all grew up together. The beautiful one was named Isabella and the marked one, Listra. Listra was considered a mistake by her parents. They say she was not without vice and so she was considered mad. She liked to create dolls from twigs of old wintry trees and she would talk to them for she had no one to talk to after all. But what she spoke to them about , the people in the castle wanted to know. What thoughts ran through such a misshapen girl's head. Did she wish people ill. She was an ill omen of things to come: a bad marriage, ugly, unruly children. This was to be her destiny. She was the curse of the King and Queen. They say they had once refused a beggar a fine meal when the queen was pregnant and that the beggar had put a curse on them, Now here she was, Listra, with her spoiled ways and rotten misdemeanor.

"You are my friends." She told her dolls." You come to me at night when the sky is blighted with a full moon. My perfect darling dolls. We shall have a feast together. Some tea and biscuits only for us."

Twigs.

They tried. Ofcourse they tried. They gave her porcelain dolls with golden hair and pastel dresses. They dressed her up in fineries fit for her position as princess. But she was always in black or she wore white only she soiled herself a lot and looked like she came down the chimney with sooth all over her.