{"id":1407,"date":"2026-01-03T21:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/love-among-the-talus-bear-elizabeth\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:29:03","slug":"love-among-the-talus-bear-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/love-among-the-talus-bear-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Among the Talus – Bear, Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You cannot really keep a princess in a tower. Not if she has no brothers and must learn statecraft and dancing and riding and poisons and potions and the passage of arms, so that she may eventually rule. <\/p>\n

But you can do the next best thing. <\/p>\n

In the land of the shining empire, in a small province north of the city of Messaline and beyond the great salt desert, a princess with a tip-tilted nose lived with her mother, Hoelun Khatun, the Dowager Queen. <\/p>\n

The princess\u2014whose name, it happens, was Nilufer\u2014stood tall and straight as an ivory pole, and if her shoulders were broad out of fashion from the pull of her long oak-white bow, her dowry would no doubt compensate for any perceived lack of beauty. Her hair was straight and black, as smooth and cool as water, and even when she did not ride with her men-at-arms, she wore split, padded skirts and quilted, paneled robes of silk satin, all emerald and jade and black and crimson embroidered with gold and white chrysanthemums. <\/p>\n

She needed no tower, for she was like unto a tower in her person, a fastness as sure as the mountains she bloomed beside, her cool reserve and mocking half-lidded glances the battlements of a glacial virginity. <\/p>\n

Her province compassed foothills, and also those mountains (which were called the Steles of the Sky). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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