9 Tales From Elsewhere 10 by 9 Tales From Elsewhere

Author:9 Tales From Elsewhere [Elsewhere, 9 Tales From]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bride of Chaos
Published: 2016-10-08T22:00:00+00:00

THE END.

THE FALL OF LONDAPTA by Charlotte Lee

Lurda first saw it after it clanged against the plough’s foreshare below her seat. It tumbled off to the side, and she called the team to stop. She hitched the reins and swung down onto the freshly turned earth, dusting her hands off against her buckskin breeches. Meelar was always going on about bits and pieces of the old world showing up here in the New World. He’d be thrilled to have an old bit of his own.

She picked it up in her work-rough hands; the engraved metal ball cool against her callouses. The odd markings sparkled in the mid-day sun between the smudges of clean smelling dirt, and wary of getting snared by it, she stowed it into the bag slung across her jerkin. Baron Enunson would not look favourably on her if she didn’t finish the first turning of this field by the end of the workday. She was determined to have the faith he placed in her vindicated. Perhaps he’d speak well of her to the Countess then.

Dreams of land grants kept coming unbidden to Lurda through the rest of the ploughing, though she banished them as soon as they appeared lest they take her attention from driving the team.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.