Attrition: The First Act of Penance (Three Acts of Penance) by S.G. Night

Author:S.G. Night [Night, S.G.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

Hymns of Ash and Ice

Later that day, after the sun had sunken behind the domus’s artificial skyline, the three Majiski retired to their rooms. Darkness fell, and the illusionary sky ignited with starlight. The cottage itself was wrapped in peaceful, nighttime silence. On his back, Racath lay thinking. Down the hall in the master bedroom, Oron lay sleeping. And in her room, beneath her heavy blankets, the augur lay dreaming.

True dreams were somewhat of a rarity for Nelle. Most nights, they were visions, glimpses of the storms brewing on time’s distant horizon. But tonight was different. Tonight, she dreamed of the past.

Racath’s arrival had stirred some memories inside her mind. Painful things, things she kept to herself, things she had buried deep down inside long, long ago. The death of her family. The destruction of the temple. The siege at Krvistata….Those stinging memories stabbed at her sleeping mind, hurting her, reminding her of things she had tried too hard to forget.

And even worse…the day that she and Racath had just spent together. The friendship that had begun to rise between them. She had known it would happen, had seen it happen a hundred times in her visions. She already knew of the bond that was fated to grow between them. It was the reason she felt so comfortable with him — she already knew him, better than he knew himself, from decades of seeing his face while she slept.

And yet…now that it was happening…it suddenly reminded her of another friend she had had once before. A friend just as close to her as she knew Racath would grow to be. A friend…from before the Demons came.

Those memories were cold. Those memories hurt the most.

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