(eng) Lynn Flewelling - Nightrunner 3.5 SSC by Glimpses

Author:Glimpses [Glimpses]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Ireya stayed with him for nearly a week, hunting in the daytime and making love to him by night, then disappeared as she always did, returning just before the food ran out.

“I’m going to marry you, Ireya,” he whispered to her as they lay together one night. “You’re going to be my wife.” He wove his fingers with hers. “Do you understand? Leave with me?”

She looked down at him and their joined hands, then laughed and kissed him. “My talí.”

By the time she left this time, he was well enough to go out and watch her trudge away. Her snowshoes sank deep in the glistening fresh powder and kicked up little puffs of it as she disappeared up the slope toward a small pass between two jagged peaks. There must be a town up there somewhere. Next time she went back, he meant to go with her.

But when she came back again, she wouldn’t hear of it. In fact, the subject quite clearly scared her. “No, no! Kill you.”

“Ireya kill me?” he asked, certain he wasn’t understanding her.

She shook her head, then took up the sharp stick they used and drew a figure and pointed to herself. That was her. Then she quickly scratched out four more the same size with bows, and two larger ones. Pointing to the four, she told him, “Mine. They kill!” and poked him in the chest with her finger.

Her people would kill him. For the first time in weeks, he thought of all those stories he’d heard. Why had she befriended him, if it went against the ways of her people?

“All right, then,” he sighed. “No go. You leave with me when my arm is mended.”

She kissed him for that, but her eyes were sad. He didn’t have the words to ask her why.

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