Etched by Dean Eliza

Author:Dean, Eliza [Dean, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

By the time they arrived at the house, Bill and Emma Bailey had already docked and were inside unloading the bags Susanna had requested. Susanna walked in the kitchen door, Kane followed close behind.

“Sorry, I was going to meet you at the dock but we were at the other end of the island,” Susanna entered and immediately began helping unload the bags.

“You have a lizard in your pocket?” Bill replied briskly without looking up.

Susanna looked from Emma to the silent Kane who stood unmoving in the corner. He shrugged and shook his head.

“You’re hearing is gone, Bill!” Emma rolled her eyes toward her husband, “Will you go check the roof on the barn while we’re here. I think I saw some of the tin torn away from the storm.”

Bill looked up in their direction and Susanna looked back and forth between him and Kane. It was unfathomable to her that Bill couldn’t see him. She looked at Kane and the look on his face was pure despondency. She ached to think about how he must have felt day after day, year after year, of being here, so close to human contact, but so impossibly undetectable.

“Did you check on the sheep after the storm?” Bill asked.

“Yes, they all seemed fine,” she answered.

“I’ll go out there, see what’s going on,” Bill shoved his arms into his thick down coat and marched out the door.

As soon as the door shut Emma’s face lit up into a smile, “Kane!” she whispered and hurried towards him. Kane opened his arms to her and Emma hugged him tightly.

After a few silent moments between the two of them, Emma turned towards Susanna, “How did you take it? I was worried. You seem a bit headstrong and stubborn,” she gave a worried look between the two of them.

“Better than I thought,” Kane answered, looking towards Susanna.

“I threw a fit and told you to get out, I’m not sure I could have taken it much worse,” Susanna laughed.

“You could have jumped into the ocean and tried to swim to shore,” he answered and it was by far the funniest thing he had said to her and caused her to laugh out loud and cover her mouth.

“I wouldn’t have done that,” she giggled, shaking her head.

“I’m not so sure,” he answered with a wide smile.

Emma looked back and forth between the two of them, beaming with happiness.

“I couldn’t have escaped, I was injured,” Susanna put her hand on her back.

Emma’s look turned serious, “Injured?”

“We haven’t told you the entire story of how I announced my presence,” Kane shook his head, “I’ll let her tell you.”

“I’m fine now, I just got a little banged up,” Susanna protested.

“She went upstairs to shut the tower door during the storm, naturally I followed her, staying way behind in the dark, when she reached the top she slipped and fell,” Kane’s look was stern.

“Fell down the tower stairs?” Emma was shocked, “Susanna, that could have been very dangerous!”

“He was there. When I woke up I was back inside and warm in front of the fire,” Susanna attempted to make light of her situation.

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