After the Snow by Crockett S. D

Author:Crockett, S. D. [Crockett, S. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 2012-03-26T22:00:00+00:00

22

That old rat catcher snore in his bed.

Mary breathing deep.

Good and quiet I get up. A slip of light slide in through a crack in the door. I take the stubby candle and put it in my pouch. Take the gloves and lay them on the floor next to Mary. She’s gonna know I left them for her cos I lay them down nice and neat. I reckon she’s gonna understand.

I crack open the door with a lowdown feeling inside. Outside the light just getting up in the sky. The storm blow the clouds away and it grow clear over in the east. A stillness in the air at last.

A clump of snow fall from the bare branches of the bushes, a crow flap up from the opposite bank. He aint been expecting me as I creep out, my breath like smoke on the chill morning air.

It’s strange being down at the bottom of this great empty canal. The tall gray walls curve away before and behind. Dirty brick rising high above me. I got to go west. Toward the sea. Out of the city and then find a horse. Take a horse and get back to the Rhinogs. To Geraint’s farm.

I can see our track through the drifts where we come last night and I follow it. I’m gonna head on down this canal. Don’t look like too many people gonna be down here to bother me.

A ray of sun crack over the city behind me. A low orange light catch along the top of the bricks. The shadows on the drifted ridges of snow turn purple and blue like a frozen river heading out through the city. And the city coming awake with this new day you can hear it.

Soon Mary gonna wake up.

I got to hurry on.

Soon she’s gonna be calling out.

Cos I aint told her nothing.

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