Only a few minutes of these ministrations and Anna felt the maid tense on her finger, and she knew what would happen next. Each breath made Anna shiver, but seeing this, Noor slowly used her warm hands to cup Anna’s thighs, spreading them to see her better. Pornhat But Anna was just getting started. He might… “I wonder what my father would do. “Noor, my sweet one, what are you doing?”
“Is he here?”
“No, no, thanks be to all the saints.”
Noor, if anything, looked disappointed. “Come, let’s give your mother the burial she deserves.”
Out under the cold sky the two girls carved a pit, barely deep enough, in the frozen earth, then carefully carried the wasted form of Anna’s mother out and laid it in. Anna felt the horsemaid spread the lips
