The Lady of the Night – Chapter 2
“Find all the chapter links in the ebook trailer post!” “Trailer of the ebook The Lady of the Night” Chapter 2 Youth and the Massacre Memory carries its own fragrance. For me, youth smelled of melted candle wax lighting our modest home, of bread my mother baked on cold mornings, and of my father’s damp boots, always dusted by the streets of revolution. I was nearly seventeen when my father first led me into a secret gathering of rebels. The cellar was thick with lamplight smoke and the sweat of men shouting furiously against the nobility’s privileges. I listened, spellbound, sensing that something vast was about to erupt. Soon, I learned to handle the small daggers my father hid beneath the mattress. “One day, daughter, you will need to defend yourself,” he told me. The cold steel in my hands felt both alien and strangely comforting. But on that fateful winter night of 1791, my youth ended. The wind sliced through the cracks of the window, carrying the distant s...