It Dreams in Me by Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Author:Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-02-28T05:00:00+00:00

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SEETHING WITH INDIGNATION, SEA GRASS ROAMED HER house swinging her walking stick at anything that didn’t move. Shattered pots and overturned baskets lay everywhere, their contents spilled across the floor.

She aimed her walking stick at Chief Pocket Mouse and stabbed him in the shoulder. “If Wink thinks she can bully me, she has a surprise coming!” Sea Grass shouted. “I want you on the trail immediately!”

“Yes, Matron, but …” Pocket Mouse had his brown eyes squinted against the emotion in her voice, and it made his flat nose look broader, as though it covered half his face. He’d seen twenty-seven winters, but already lines etched his forehead. “Are we trying to start a civil war?”

“Do you dare to question my orders?” she shouted, her voice rising to a squeal. “These are the orders of your clan elders, not just mine!”

“I—I did not mean to offend, Matron! Forgive me. How many warriors do you wish me to take?”

“As many as you need to wipe out the entire Shadow Rock war party.”

Pocket Mouse mopped his sweaty brow with his red sleeve. “Matron, I’m not sure that’s possible. Even if I took all two hundred—”

“I want them dead! I don’t care how many warriors it requires, do it!”

Sea Grass hobbled over to glower up into his face. He was a tall, broad-shouldered man. She had to tip her head far back to see his eyes. In a low, threatening voice, she said, “I don’t know where her warriors are headed, but it’s your job to make sure they do not arrive.”

“But, Matron, what about Fan Palm Village? I thought that was our prior—”

“After you’ve killed the Shadow Rock warriors, destroy it. Just as we planned. Now get out of my sight!” She waved her walking stick to accent her words.

Pocket Mouse deftly dodged the stick, then backed away and hurried from the chamber. As he left her house, she heard him calling orders to his warriors.

Shaking with rage, she hobbled over to her sleeping bench and slumped atop her blankets. “Wink has no idea what I’m capable of. Perhaps it’s finally time to order my assassin back to Blackbird Town.”

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