We've got a first look at cylapanin's upcoming YA fantasy Beguiled, in which a struggling young weaver turns to a mythical Scottish spirit known as the Bean-Nighe to try and change her life.
wasn’t good enough and I knew it. Plenty of cloth shops soldthings. I had to make breathtaking, gorgeous fabric to make sure clients kept coming back. My father used to say that’s what could set us apart from all the others. Being the best weaver in the city was the most important thing to him, and I’d understood why from the time I was very small. We were two of many in the square of buildings so old they seemed to ache as they leaned against each other.
“It brings the color up in your cheeks,” I lied. “And the wool itself is from a village in the mountains where the sheep are said to graze in faerie rings.” “My dress allowance is fully spent this month, and Kiju simply won’t give me any more silver. My mother doesn’t understand. But Ia new dress. I’m going to a . . . a party next week and everyone has already seen everything I own. Can you imagine if I show up in an old dress?”
“Exactly. So I want to buy this wool but I’ll have to give you something else for it. Silver still! Just not coins.”My heart sank like a stone. This had never happened with Odina. Before Papa was taken, I’d sometimes sold cheaper fabric to farmers and mill workers and their families, and they’d offer something else for payment.
I wasn’t worried about its sentimentality at all, but she couldn’t know that. She had to continue thinking I had money from other clients, that I was successful and she was buying from a known weaver. It was the perception I’d worked hard to cultivate. If I begged for coin now, I’d shatter it. But Gods, I needed the money. “Please, Ella. I promise I’ll come back to you right away when I have my dress allowance for next month.
With more clients, I wouldn’t have to rely on Odina. I wouldn’t have to worry about my debts anymore. If Papa were here, I could explain it to him and it would make sense and he would nod his head with a wink and a glimmer in his eye. Hope. Plus, he wouldn’t want me to show Odina any weakness—or have me scraping for coin.
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