Blue Boots
Blue Boots is a Robin Hobb story in the anthology Songs of Love and Death that takes place in and near the Timberrock Keep in Buck Duchy. The story is told from the point of view of Timbal, a recently orphaned kitchen girl whose only treasure in the world are the blue boots her father bought her shortly before his death. She falls in love with the minstrel Azen who is staying in the Keep to entertain and serve Lord Just and Lady Lucent.
Cast of characters
- Timbal, a tinker's daughter
- Azen, a minstrel
- Lady Lucent of Timberrock Keep
- Lord Just of Timberrock Keep
- The Cook (male)
- Gissel, an innkeeper's daughter
- Gretcha, a housemaid at Timberrock Keep
- Saria, apprentice minstrel
- Chrissock, lord Just's resident minstrel
- Lord Spindrift, lord Just's cousin
- Lowl, a field hand from Timberrock Keep
- Seck, Gissel's cousin who lives in Smithfield
- Missa, a farrier's daughter, Seck's sweetheart
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