5/10/2023 0 Comments I am dead xbox![]() Hidden beneath the top row of sacks was a leather-bound ledger. She carefully lifted out a few of the sacks, trying to keep them from jingling, noting with some interest that her hands, which should have been shaking, were as steady as stone. It was a small fortune, but Miriamele knew that Aspitis and his family were the possessors of a very large fortune beside which this was a mere handful. The coins were mostly silver, but each sack contained more than a few gold Imperators as well. The chest was, as she had seen, full of bags of money. Her ears brought her every creak of the ship's timbers and every slap of the waves on the hull, but as the trudging hours passed, his booted footsteps never sounded in the passageway. She lay unmoving, breathing quietly, waiting for Aspitis' return, her mind set on her course so firmly that she would not allow any thoughts to distract her-not memories of her childhood and her friends, not regrets about the places she would never see. In her oddly detached state, this realization was only one more tally added to the earl's overloaded account, but it helped to stiffen her resolve. Miriamele was crawling under her blanket when she suddenly understood the significance of the white robe. She felt the hands that shook her, and heard the quiet voice, but her mind did not want to return to the waking world.
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