Ashes on the Waves by Mary Lindsey

Author:Mary Lindsey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

—Edgar Allan Poe,

from “The Bells,” 1848

Muireann could not see her Liam anywhere. She’d followed his progress from the harbor as he and his female climbed the cliff trail toward his dwelling but lost sight of him once he’d run toward the flames.

This must be what the Na Fir Ghorm meant by a “trial by fire.”

Please let him be okay, she chanted in her head.

Something moved in the vegetation on the slope behind her Liam’s dwelling. She squinted to make out what it was, but it was too dark to see clearly. Ducking under, she swam closer to shore.

A horrible clatter came from the harbor, startling her so much she breathed in seawater. The humans were ringing those awful bells again. She blew the water out of her nose in one hard puff, flinching at every strike of the bells. She could even hear them underwater.

As she neared the slope, the form moved again. It was traveling toward the beach away from the fire, which was raging, sending a black column of smoke to the sky. Eyes and nose barely above the surface, she waited.

The human burst from the bushes, looking over his shoulder at the fire on the top of the cliff. It was the human male she had seen the Na Fir Ghorm leader speaking with earlier in the day. It had struck her as odd the Na Fir Ghorm were talking to a human, but now it made sense. They were using him.

It was the same human she had seen talking to Brigid Ronan—the one with the black square covering his eye.

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