Blood of the South by Clare Alys

Author:Clare, Alys [Clare, Alys]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Historical, Thriller & Suspense
ISBN: 9781780105857
Publisher: Severn House Digital
Published: 2015-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

I paused. I was watching Hrype closely – as closely as he frequently watches me – and I sensed that he was deliberately masking his thoughts. ‘Really?’ he asked mildly. ‘What, then, is the truth?’

‘I do not yet know,’ I admitted. ‘But Miklagard is not an end in itself, nor was it ever. Skuli is going on, driven towards some goal that is hidden from me, yet which I know to be perilous.’ The stone had revealed a little to me, and I had been very afraid. I’d heard those two galloping horses again, and the ravens had flown out towards me. The stone had whispered reassurance – They do not come for you – and that had given me the resolve not to turn away in abject terror.

I went on staring at Hrype. ‘You know where he is going, don’t you?’ I said softly.

He didn’t answer at first. He glanced at Edild, then lowered his eyes so that he was staring into the fire. ‘I suspect,’ he said eventually. ‘We – I believe there is a destination for which he may be bound.’

We. Before he corrected himself, he’d said we. Did he mean him and Edild? No. I knew for sure he didn’t. Who, then?

The answer seemed to be leaping up through the layers of my mind. But just then, before I could grasp it, Hrype began speaking again. Well, not exactly speaking; his voice was a soft hum, like the background noise of insects when you stand in woodland on a warm summer’s afternoon. The note rose and fell, apparently at random, and the sound was sweet and hypnotic. I felt my eyelids grow heavy, and the urge to sleep was all but irresistible …

Then, some time later, there was Edild, kneeling before me, pushing a bowl of hot, fragrant gruel into my hands. ‘Eat this, Lassair, then go to bed,’ she commanded. ‘Hrype’s just going.’ She shot him a look, and I had the impression she was displeased with him.

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