Timbre’s Tapestry Serial Story Review Chapters Nine and Ten

Belfry Heights and Starting Fresh

Chapter nine, “Belfry Heights,” opens with Frito, unable to summon the same enthusiasm for his work with Timbre missing. A conversation with his father reveals that his parents have noticed more than he imagined. His friendship with Timbre, her difficult life, and the fact Frito has been unhappy since she left.

Frito’s father gives him a talk about the ways of the world and encourages him to go seek her out if that makes him happy and lets him move forward. So Frito gathers his things up and leaves a letter for his mother before heading out on a wagon for the capital of Langrisha’a, Belfry Heights.

Unfortunately for Frito, Ma sent her goon Hiram to look for Timbre as well, and he jumped right on Frito’s tail going out of town in the hopes he knew where Timbre was saving some time. Hiram brought his two usual lackeys along on the job. They usually made deliveries in the crowded cobblestone streets of the capital. Belfry Heights was filled with tall grey spires and angular architecture cramping the smokey quarters.

Hiram is well acquainted with the city, easily tracking Frito as he wanders around for hours, until finally coming across a tavern called The Albino Mink. He gets a bit of food from Candi, the pleasant enough barmaid, trying to decide if this would be a good place to ask for a job while his unknown followers watch and wait outside. Hiram had more to do than sit and watch a door all day, so Butch and Dan were stationed as lookouts. Butch immediately gets into a minor scuffle with a small group of gremlins on their way into The Albino Mink.

Chapter ten, “Starting Fresh,” opens with Timbre waking up on the third day, she’d slept that first night, then through another entire day and night. She is confused and overwhelmed; her mind is racing with disconnected memories. She is barely able to make it out of the bed and to the door of the strange room she’s in before collapsing on the floor sobbing.

William comes to the rescue, Helping her up and back onto the bed. After a bit of goofy hijinx landing them both back on the floor, Timbre and William have some deep conversation interspersed with a bit of fun.

Over the next days, which melt into weeks, Timbre slowly has to work through the realization that the Spinners aren’t her real family. Her life with them was no life at all, and her captors had been taking measures to keep her working and keep her from leaving. These aren’t easy truths to accept; how could the stories in the books she read actually be real, and what her parents told her to be lies?

Timbre started to identify with the fairy girl in her book, who spins spider silk into beautiful cloth. Connecting to her past and her memories for the first time since the foul magics Ma Spinner wove on her had finally worn off. breaking down but leaning on Will, thankful for the support. They decide to start looking for information about the parents she doesn’t remember but knows now must exist.

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