She’d spend hours there while I worked.”Īsh asked, “Will you bring me a new book, Father?” “She did like visiting the booksellers’ bazaar, though. She said she missed the Wood.” He suddenly looked deeply sad, and he rubbed his hand over his face as if he were brushing away the memories. “She did travel with me to Seatown once,” he answered, “but she did not like it. “Did Mother ever go with you?” she asked, and he seemed surprised by her question. When he returned he would bring back gifts: slippery, shiny silks, or thick woolen tweeds, or toy dolls made of pale, cold porcelain. Before her mother died, her father would leave them for months at a time to do business in the south. At breakfast that morning, she asked him, “When will you come back?” Two weeks after her mother’s funeral, Ash’s father left for the Royal City.
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