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THE PRINCESS IN THE TOWER
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Hers was a gentle prison.
Arianne took solace1 from that. Why would her father go to such great pains to provide for her comfort in captivity2 if he had marked her for a traitor3’s death? He cannot mean to kill me, she told herself a hundred times. He does not have it in him to be so cruel. I am his blood and seed, his heir, his only daughter. If need be, she would throw herself beneath the wheels of his chair, admit her fault, and beg him for his pardon. And she would weep. When he saw tears rolling down her face, he would forgive her.
She was less certain whether she would forgive herself.
“Areo,” she had pleaded with her captor during the long dry ride from the Greenblood back to Sunspear, “I never wanted the girl to come to harm. You must believe me.”
Hotah made no reply, except to grunt4. Arianne could feel his anger. Darkstar had escaped him, the most dangerous of all her little group of plotters. He had outraced all his pursuers and vanished into the deep desert, with blood upon his blade.
“You know me, captain,” Arianne had said, as the leagues rolled past. “You have known me since I was little. You always kept me safe, as you kept my lady mother safe when you came with her from Great Norvos to be her shield in a strange land. I need you now. I need your help. I never meant—”
“What you meant does not matter, little princess,” Areo Hotah said. “Only what you did.” His countenance5 was stony6. “I am sorry. It is for my prince to command, for Hotah to obey.”
Arianne expected to be brought before her father’s high seat beneath the dome7 of leaded glass in the Tower of the Sun. Instead, Hotah delivered her to the Spear Tower, and the custody8 of her father’s seneschal Ricasso and Ser Manfrey Martell, the castellan. “Princess,” Ricasso said, “you will forgive an old blind man if he does not make the climb with you. These legs are not equal to so many steps. A
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