Black Ice by Susan Krinard

Author:Susan Krinard [Krinard, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, General, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780765332097
Google: xQkRnwEACAAJ
Amazon: 0765332094
Barnesnoble: 0765332094
Goodreads: 18490727
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2013-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

The sun was no more than a crimson streak on the western horizon, glowing coals of a dying fire that had never touched the cold. Mist imagined that feeble flame sinking behind the San Francisco skyline, plummeting into the frigid ocean, bubbling and steaming and vanishing into the unseasonable winter fog.

The rocks overlooking the arroyo that ran across the edge of Eir’s property were cold as well, and the harsh wind sent red dust rolling along the bottom of the canyon like hands intent on stripping the earth to its bare bones. Mist almost thought she saw ghostly figures dancing along the dry streambed.

Eir came up behind Mist. “Ready,” she said.

They walked back down to the Jeep. Eir threw her duffle into the back and climbed onto the passenger seat.

“The apples?” Mist asked.

“Here,” Eir said, withdrawing a small pouch from within her flannel shirt. “The seeds.” She glanced back toward the house. The trees were gone, vanished as if they had never been.

“Perhaps they will grow here again someday,” Eir said with deep sadness. “When I return.”

She didn’t have to say what both of them were thinking: she might never come back at all.

“You look worried,” Eir remarked as Mist sat in her own seat, staring at the road and the false rock face that seemed to block them in.

“I’ve been gone a day and a half,” Mist said, “but San Francisco could be in rubble and I wouldn’t know it.”

“I think we’d have known somehow,” Eir said, her voice husky and warm. “Be glad Loki never showed up here. Though I think if he had, he would have found it difficult to get past my—”

Something yipped in the dark. Mist recognized the sound as the piercing cry of a coyote.

Eir held up her hand sharply. “Wait,” she whispered. She climbed out of the Jeep and circled it slowly. “It might not be so easy to leave after all.”

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