These six follow on in Chapter Six of The Seven Noble Knights of Lara several pages after last week's. The seven, their mother, and doña Lambra have agreed to travel to Barbadillo, ostensibly to see if there is any good hunting. We're inside Lambra's head, on the road.
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The second day, as they entered narrow passageways between rocky outcrops shaded by pines, the seven brothers surrounded Lambra on their horses as if they were her personal guard. She looked at the wispy brown hairs moving with the breeze on the back of Gonzalo’s neck and imagined using a shining copper razor to get rid of that ridiculous stubble on his chin, holding the smoothed face in her hands, bringing the round red lips toward hers. No: not even finishing the friendly shave before – accidentally, of course – making a sudden strategic slit under his ear, all the way across to the other ear.
She cleared her throat and said loudly for Gonzalo to hear, “Oh, Justa, do you think there are robbers hiding in these hills? It’s doesn’t matter anyway, with my nephews here to protect me.”
Every one of the brothers grinned, baring white teeth, and sat up a little taller in his saddle. * * *
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She's having some dark thoughts, there (slitting his throat).
ReplyDeleteWonderful snippet, and I love the picture you've used.
That's not such a friendly shave. Lambra's such an interesting character.
ReplyDeleteIntense...loved her internals :)
ReplyDeleteI saw your blog title after reading your sentences and it made me laugh. She has very conflicting ideas about Gonzalo, hey? I like how she plays with the men's pride too. She's quite the lady! :)
ReplyDeleteLambra is quite a woman, isn't she? I loved this. The way you've described it, it feels so real. And that is a truly gorgeous picture.
ReplyDeleteAwesome six ~ you definitely have a way with words!
ReplyDeletePlotting assassination - accidental of course - always good fun!
ReplyDeleteI've been reading your blog. That's good fun too :) Here's a [[hug]] belatedly for Hug a Medievalist Day. I wish I'd known about that at work in the Museum.
I agree. She's quite the lady! Great six!
ReplyDeleteWonderful six! It made me want to know more about Lambra.
ReplyDeleteShe's a devil in disguise. Fascinating six!
ReplyDeleteWow, the shaving bit was a nice, vivid twist. She is definitely no stranger to political intrigue and manipulation!
ReplyDeleteOh nice! I like it.
ReplyDeleteAwesome six! I wasn't expecting that shaving twist. Very intriguing!
ReplyDeleteI've just started participating in Six Sentence Sunday so I'm having all sorts of fun checking out the blogs...I love the shaving twist!
ReplyDeleteVery nice. Love the setting details slipped into action.
ReplyDeleteNice description on the shaving piece!
ReplyDeleteGreat shaving and aborted kiss, but what a way to 'twist' the razor, lol.
ReplyDeleteLove the six.
Great writing!
ReplyDeleteNice six, I like the way she went from desirous of him to violent. I wonder which dream will come true ;-)
ReplyDeleteInteresting twist. I so didn't see her thoughts going in that direction. And I love the picture. So pretty.
ReplyDeleteI love the lyricism in the voice of this, it just flows so well!
ReplyDeleteShe's a cut above crazy. This is slicingly delicious.
ReplyDeleteThat picture is gorge. Even more so when you think about the dark, murderous thoughts she's having!
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