Heart of Time (Ruined Heart Series Book 1) by Skye MacKinnon

Author:Skye MacKinnon [MacKinnon, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peryton Press
Published: 2017-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

The peryton was eating noisily, crushing salad leaf after salad leaf between his small jaws. The guard had brought a large plate with a multitude of foods for the fawn to choose from. At first, it seemed like he couldn’t decide on what would be tastiest, but after nibbling on some vegetables he began to eat hungrily and noisily. He ignored the pieces of raw meat in the middle of the plate and instead focused on vegetables and salad. For me, the guard had taken a warm loaf of bread from the kitchen, together with a piece of old crumbly cheese. The bread was delicious, its moist texture made my mouth water even while I was satisfying my own hunger.

After we had eaten, the peryton looked at me. Mum wants food, too. It was weird to think of the elvedritsch as the fawn’s mother, she looked so different from him in any way. I filled a small bowl with the pumpkin seeds beside her cage and put it in front of her sleeping form. When I approached her, she opened a single golden eye and looked at me lazily, before starting to pick at the seeds. Her large curved beak was ideal for gobbling up one seed at a time. Having sated her hunger, she walked over to her son, who was lying on the floor, leaning against my leg.

Does she speak to you in your mind? I asked him.

He sent me a feeling of regret.

She only feels. I know her hunger. I know her happiness. Not more.

I reached out to the elvedritsch, but I encountered only a general feeling of her presence without an access to her thoughts.

She’s tired. Me too.

You’ve slept the whole day!

Sleeping good for you, he told me wisely, before nodding off again. I stayed in my sitting pose, not wanting to wake him by getting into a more comfortable position. I waited.

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