Chapter 15: Cocktail Party
The next day had the pageant of the seasons, with the reports of each harvest and gathering. Everyone had to be there, and clothes had to be changed seven times. Jade was miserable, and Megan delighted, which only made Jade more miserable. She’d had better days in basic training, in the rain, marching under full pack—or so she tried to tell Megan, but that was difficult to do through the three layers of watered silk she had over her head as she changed clothes for the early-fall-into-late-fall part of the ceremony which had been occasioned by the first hard frost of the season that morning.
Megan had little sympathy. “At least there aren’t pins in them anymore, I think.” Jade’s enraged noises made Megan giggle.
Good God, what am I doing? Megan thought. I haven
