Sunday Six

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Someone commented on Blackbird Claw, Raven Wing, which gave me a bit of a sequel to it.

But the petitioners looked to her, bowed with the respect due to royalty and not a mere lord, and she worried over it.

"Well, it is your due," Morgan said, which was not helpful.

"Only in courtesy," Catarina said. "I have no authority over them, not even that of the wife of their Lord. If they do not go to their own Lord they should take the matter higher, and if they see me as that high authority--"

She stopped herself, because she did not want to say it out loud--that Rylund would hear of it, and certainly take offence, and then this quiet sanctuary far from court that she had found would be snatched from her.