( it isn’t until ash is alone again that he realizes he’s a widow. again.
he had time to anticipate jenny’s death. not a lot of it, but still some. she was sick. embry is, was, had been, he — he was healthy and fine. now he’s dead and not just dead but massacred, disrespected, made into butcher meat by a hand that exists within the manor. someone did it. it was done to him.
he thinks about a body tied to a chariot. paraded. gloated. dragged like a dog. a corpse turned to a trophy. )
— five of six.
he had time to anticipate jenny’s death. not a lot of it, but still some. she was sick. embry is, was, had been, he — he was healthy and fine. now he’s dead and not just dead but massacred, disrespected, made into butcher meat by a hand that exists within the manor. someone did it. it was done to him.
he thinks about a body tied to a chariot. paraded. gloated. dragged like a dog. a corpse turned to a trophy. )