Blood Magic by Matthew Cook

Author:Matthew Cook [Cook, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780809572007
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Amazon: 0809572001
Barnesnoble: 0809572001
Goodreads: 982250
Publisher: Juno Books
Published: 2007-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

“There is no baby!” I scream, whirling to face her. She stops, her eyes wide, mouth open. “There is no baby,” I repeat, shaking my head.

“But … the morning sickness. And the nausea at food. It is just like when my—”

“I cannot have children,” I say, spitting the words like venom. “I was married, before. We … I cannot have children like other women.”

I had no trouble getting with child, my sister says. I can almost see the smug smile on her lips.

Has it never occurred to you that we are twins? That it might have been Urik’s fault, not yours, that no child quickened in your womb? Women are never supposed to imply that a man is incapable, but you know that sometimes they are. Besides, you and Jazen Tor certainly had enough occasions to make a little one, did you not?

Her words, the unvarnished truth of them, stops me in my tracks. Lia says something, putting her hand on my shoulder, but I cannot hear her through the denials echoing through my head.

It cannot be, I whisper to myself. It must not be. Not a baby. Not mine. Not from my damaged, sorry womb. Not me. Not a baby. It must not be. It must not be.

But it is. You know it to be true.

I walk a few, faltering steps. I have lost all sense of direction. Me, a tracker. Lost and confused.

A pack of children run past, grubby boys and girls in tattered shifts, laughing at some game, their spirits unbroken by the misery about them. Pure, defiant joy is in their voices.

Then, without knowing how, I am kneeling in the mud, weeping, still protesting, pressing my face into Lia’s chest as she holds me. She strokes my hair, whispering assurances, her confusion evident in every word.

All I can do is cling to her, like a shipwreck survivor holding fast to some piece of flotsam, struggling with all the strength I have to keep my head above the black tide.

My sister, for once, is silent.

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