Body of Water by Stuart Wakefield

Author:Stuart Wakefield [Wakefield, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stuart Wakefield
Published: 2011-08-12T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Confusion

"He doesn't belong here, Dom. Why don't ye see that?" The voice was female, pitched high with frustration.

"Ah don't belong here but here Ah am all the same." His voice rumbled at the opposite pitch to hers.

I opened my eyes. I was on the sofa in the lounge, draped in a blanket, a thick pillow behind my neck and shoulders. I swallowed and tasted blood in my parched mouth. I couldn't tell if it was early morning or late afternoon. The smell of freshly brewed coffee wafted into the room. I hadn't seen Dom drink anything but water so I assumed he knew this woman well enough to offer her a drink other than that.

I wasn't sure which memories were real and which were dreams. There was Dom, the millhouse, his... disappearance, then Shaun.

My heart sank at the thought of him. I knew that he had been a dream.

Not wanting to alert Dom and his companion I stayed as still as possible while lifting the blanket. My head thumped and my limbs ached. I was naked except for the gauze which had been taped clumsily to patches of my skin. Blood had soaked through a number of them. The blanket was stuck to my parts of my stomach. With equal measures of horror and relief I realised that I'd had a wet dream.

"Ye don't understand the danger he's in," the woman pressed on. "If Tammie hadn't found him who knows what might have happened."

"We're all in danger, Maggs."

So that's who it was. Maggs. What was she doing here?

"What do ye mean by that?"

Dom sounded frustrated. "Haven't ye looked outside? Do ye remember a Simmer Dim as bad as this?"

"Ye mean...?"

"Her power should be strong now, the seas should be calm, but this," I imagined him jutting a finger towards the window, "is his doing."

"Ye think she's dead?" There was fear in her voice.

"Ah can't say for sure but Ah think not. Ah'm sure Ah'd feel it if she was. But something is wrong, Ah know that much."

"Have you... asked Mackay?" She sounded nervous now.

Dom grunted. "He tells me nothing. Ah'm expected tae do as Ah'm told withoot question."

"I could ask-"

"He trusts no one, not even the beuy."

"That doesn't surprise me."

"Why d'ye say that?"

"I can't tell ye, not yet, but there's a reason he was taken away. He must leave."

"No. Ah need him."

"Ye've told him?!"

"Not exactly. Ah can't find the words."

"I can't ever begin to understand what it's like for ye, Dom, to be here like this but ye have to think of the boy. This is no time to be selfish."

I didn't need to see the fury on Dom's face. The sound of him trying to control his breathing and the snort through his nostrils was enough.

Silence followed, then Maggs' heavy sigh. I heard the kitchen door open before both the sound of the ocean and the freshness of the cool, salty air, rushed in.

"Please, Dom. Do what's right for him."

The door closed and the silence returned. I could only bear it for a moment before I raised my head to look into the kitchen.

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