A Painted Winter by H. Barnard

Author:H. Barnard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-08T10:44:21+00:00

The following night Brei and Taran rode out from the stables on patrol together. Under the ancient trees of the Sacred Forest they rode in silence, and left the city through the Western Gate. On the fringe of the forest near the farmstead they stopped their horses. Brei breathed in the scent of damp, rotting leaves after the snowmelt.

“You all right, brother?” Brei asked. Taran did not respond. “Did something happen?”

“Why do you care?”

“Because you vouched for someone accused of spying for the enemy. Taran, it was a condition of her staying here that you would watch her, and yet…here you are alone.”

“You’re infuriating, you know that, don’t you?”

“If that’s what you think, but still, I’d like to know where she is.”

Taran bowed his head, his hands fiddling with the leather reins. “We got to the mouth of the River Forth, to the harbour city there, Caeredyn, and now she’s…” He paused and cleared his throat. “And now she’s gone. She wanted to go the rest of the way on her own, and I searched Caeredyn. Went as far into Gwoddodin as I dared, but I couldn’t find her. And so, yes, here I am…alone.”

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