In the Blue Pike — Volume 02
Kuni walks a thin line between earth and sky, and her heart walks an even more treacherous path. A gifted ropedancer whose art has made her both celebrated and vagrant, she has given her devotion to Lienhard Groland, a nobleman whose kindness is as tormenting as his unavailability. When Kuni falls from the rope during a performance, she doesn't merely break her body; she shatters the fragile identity she'd constructed as an artist and as a woman sustained by impossible hope. The fall forces her to confront what she has long avoided: a curse she invoked upon a young girl named Juliane, and the accumulated weight of her desperation and longing. As she recuperates, Kuni must reckon with guilt, the boundaries of her social station, and whether redemption can come to someone who has lost everything, including the one thing she did perfectly. Ebers weaves a poignant tale of love, sacrifice, and the complex dance between desire and obligation, set against a world that marginalizes those who dare to reach beyond their place.
