False Tidings: A Fool's Errand (The Fool's Journey Book 1) by Stephen J Grant

Author:Stephen J Grant [Grant, Stephen J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feydor Publishing
Published: 2023-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

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The first signs of dawn were encroaching. Matilda sat on the ground, stunned at the action of her mother. Who’d have expected it? Not her. She looked around; four other Janasà lay dead, scattered about the clearing. What were those things? Now that she could see more, she got a better look at them. Smooth, almost feminine facial skin with a greenish hue. A helmet and body armour of something not unlike leather. Where ears should be, bony bumps poked through the helmet, covered in the same green hide as the face. What stood out were the oversized and taught muscled hands. That and the sixth finger. The men dragged another one onto the fire, which leapt up and enveloped it. A smell of burning fat filled the camp space.

“Janasà,” declared Jasper. “See all of you. It’s not safe in these woods. Ger, Jacopo, you were on watch. What effing happened? Did you fall asleep?”

“Ger,” said Jasper, “I swear on my mother’s life, I didn’t. It all went so quick. One moment, I’m sat sharpening my knife, the next, something rushes past me and starts swinging at us.”

“Jacopo?”

“The same. I saw nothing until they were on us.”

“What did they want?” asked Helena.

“You or your daughter, I’d say,” replied Jasper. “Four of them made a protective ring so that one could go after you. With those axe skills, I don’t know how she didn’t kill you both.”

“She?” asked William, surprised.

“Had to be a she,” said Morwena. “The males are just for breeding.”

“You mean sort of like bees?” asked William.

“I wouldn’t know about that,” said Morwena.

“Why are you going on about bees? Why was it they attacked Matilda and me?”

“No idea, mistress,” said Jasper. “We can hardly ask it now, can we? Maybe you smell different? How the eff would I know? Come on, let’s get these things burned. I don’t want them springing back to life or no nonsense like that. Ger, give me an ’and with this one.”

Matilda pulled Morwena aside, and they began talking nineteen to the dozen. It was odd that she would gravitate to the red-headed fighter rather than her own mother in such a moment, but what did William know of how young women thought? Matilda looked less than impressed with whatever Helena was telling her.

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