Eyes in the Water by Monica Lee Kennedy

Author:Monica Lee Kennedy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: coming of age, christian fantasy, fatherhood, sword adventure, sword fantasy, lands whisper, parting breath
Publisher: Monica Lee Kennedy

CHAPTER 7

To battle evil, one must first accept and conquer the evil within.

-Genesifin

“You must ask,” the spirit said with a sneer.

“I will not,” Carn replied heavily to his soumme, who was not his soumme.

“I think you will.”

Carn peered at her with pinched eyes. Dierdre, his bride, looked the same. She had the same square face, with pinched features and stick-straight blond hair. She had never been fair, save the beauty he had grown to see and love within her. And love her he did. Or had. For now that inner loveliness had vanished. There was the physiognomy of the one he adored, but malice currently reigned in the eyes that had previously been soft and gentle.

She sneered. “I will keep hurting her.”

Carn’s face soured in scorn. “She’s no more. I’ll not further your aims by allowing you to take me too.”

Dierdre scowled with rage, for he had spoken truth.

These foul incarnate creatures are unpredictable. I detest their stupid attempts to fight me, the spirit thought. All bugs. They are all bugs.

Carn contemplated Dierdre’s eyes, the dark pools that had once boasted a hue of light amber. There were still patches of color, but the black shot out from the pupil like the dark streaks left from a fire’s kiss. Over the last few hours with her, it had progressed. Soon there would be only darkness.

Like she was being burned from within…

Dierdre’s lips pressed together, and suddenly her face opened in a new thought. “I imagine there must be something you desire.” She spread her features into a cunning and evil grin, which disappeared almost as quickly as it emerged. “You will die regardless, but if you acquiesce, I will make certain allowances.” Dierdre’s eyes flashed perilously.

Carn pondered the words but found he could not see past that awful loathing in those eyes.

She really is gone.

He had known it, but facing the stark truth squarely was like a brick to his gut. Carn gasped in pain. And now his own mortality was leaking away with each passing moment. It was only a matter of time.

I must do something, he thought, his mind scrambling.

Finally, he nodded to her, shoulders slumped down in defeat. Dierdre smiled widely. The loathing within the gesture sent goose bumps down his spine.

“I knew we could manage this problem somehow. What is it you want?”

Carn lifted his chin and looked up into her eyes. “I want to write a letter to my son. I want to say goodbye.”

Dierdre’s lip curled in disgust. These creatures and their young.

“Fine. Do it.” She indicated the ivory desk in the corner with a flip of her index finger. Her cuticles, and the beginnings of the nail bed, were the startling hue of soot. Carn noted this with blank expression and followed directions meekly, settling down to the paper and pen before him.

Dierdre stood over him.

This will not do, Carn thought. He leaned forward with a quavering hand and scrawled My Son across the top. He bent over and shook with sobs. It was only partly contrived.

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