Grave of Hummingbirds by Jennifer Skutelsky

Author:Jennifer Skutelsky
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781503952713
Published: 2016-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

The kitchen door was open, but Gregory saw no sign of Finn in the courtyard.

The barn. Surely not? The young man wouldn’t have ventured into the barn.

Gregory would need the lamp, he’d need to see . . . but what would he find? . . . she’d inflict damage on an unwary boy . . . where was the lamp? . . . and the young man might hurt her if she frightened him . . . where was the godforsaken lamp, he must have left it in the kitchen . . . no . . . why could he never find anything when he needed it?

There. Someone had placed it behind the axe and the firewood.

Perhaps he was mistaken and Finn had returned to his mother.

Gregory opened the barn door and for a moment stood, immobile, able to distinguish only shapes. He was afraid to speak, afraid to show his fear, unwilling to alarm the condor.

“Finn?” he murmured into the shadows.

“Yes?” The response came after a pause.

“Where are you? Where’s the bird?” Gregory fumbled for words. “Finn, are you there? Why are you hiding in the dark? Are you hurt? Has she hurt you?”

The lamp oozed a yellow glow across the accessible areas of the barn: the garden tools, bridles, saddles, sacks of feed for the horses and birds; Finn and the condor together, not apart as he had hoped. Jesus.

“No, she hasn’t hurt me. Why would she?”

Gregory had no answer. A magical boy sat cross-legged on the floor, a boy from far away, who rested his hand on a condor’s wing and held his head inches away from her beak.

Gregory closed his eyes and calmed his cluttered thoughts. About to step toward them, he changed his mind and, to avoid disrupting the intimate connection they shared, walked out of the barn.

Looking up at the shrinking sun, he saw a second condor begin a descent into the canyon.

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