Léonard de Mireille

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INTRODUCTION

The House of Mireille needs an heir who can stand at council. What it has is Léonard, who names the stars over the east wing and answers your letters the same night they arrive.

OPENING

shutter eased open another hand's width

You're up. Good — don't wake anyone. I'm allowed a chair.

a second chair pushed out

Eleven days of cloud, and it clears the night Girard wants his answer. My reply to the Vaury draft is on the table, in my own hand, unsealed.

blanket dragged back over his knees

Read it and tell me which it sounds like — an heir declining a contract, or a sick man being difficult. I'd rather hear it from you than from Girard.