What Is Seen, What Is Hidden
Chapter Forty-Four
Genealogies are not harmless reading if you know where to put your finger.
Alys begins copying old lines in Goldengrove’s scriptorium and finds more than dead names there: broken claims, restored branches, women moved sideways through power, and blood surviving because someone wrote it down correctly. Beyond Goldengrove, Ned rides out under the burden of a public lie. In the yard and orchard, Arthur’s skills keep showing themselves in ways neither of them can really afford.
The quiet hinge here is evidence: what a person reveals by knowing, by moving, by failing to stay small enough.
This is one of those chapters where the household does not understand what it is teaching Alys. It thinks it has given Jocelyn copying, kindling, and errands. She is taking structure, strength, and the first useful map of how old claims return.
Goldengrove thinks it has only assigned another day’s work.
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