Angels in the Architecture by Sue Fitzmaurice

Author:Sue Fitzmaurice [Fitzmaurice, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

Fulk had been lying a good while in a new and hidden watching spot beneath the tree he’d previously occupied. There was nothing about hurry that Fulk needed to know of in his life. He was mainly about eating and sleeping and staying warm to the extent that he could. There was no trouble with that today though and the warm that there was had made him sleepy, and he’d dozed and not quite slept through the high sun hours.

He stretched now and sat up from his warm nest of leaves and other forest droppings. He needed to walk about now or he would be stiff later, even though it was warmer. Fulk got up slowly and quietly onto his big feet, crouching a moment and looking about, listening for any sounds that were not the usual ones always there. Sensing no risk or menace, he crept slowly, and a little stooped, to a large tree and stood quietly against its trunk, almost blending in entirely to the rough bark. He looked about once more and edged slowly away from this tree to another, again stopping a spell until moving on again, and in this way he manoeuvred slowly and quietly in the direction he wanted, without much insistence to get there in any more time than this method would take.

In a while, he got to the edge of the forest where a small lake rested ponderously in the warm day, and here Fulk sat back against another tree a while, thinking he might scoop a drink from the water since he found himself dry in his mouth. He was not too familiar with water, having never understood to wash himself, and only once having ventured a little way into a pond, to then have to suffer an unbearable itching for days from some mite that got under his clothes, which he’d had no thought to remove any part of before his wading.

Fulk liked the shining on the water. Things didn’t shine in the forest much, at least not like this, not this much. This shine was so bright as to make him blink and close his eyes, and when he looked away, he couldn’t see some things for a while; he thought this was not so useful, so he tried not to look at the water’s surface where it was alight, but it was hard not to also because it caught his eye..

In between looking at the water and not looking at the water, a great white duck moved from behind some reeds and floated a small way towards him, coming side on to him and looking with a sharp dark red eye in his direction. Fulk hadn’t seen these white ducks before. It was much, much larger than the usual ducks and had a very long white neck. In fact he suspected it wasn’t a duck at all, but something else – just as a hare wasn’t a rabbit but it was something else instead. He wondered whether

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