Journey's End by Rachel Hawkins

Author:Rachel Hawkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2016-10-04T15:11:18+00:00

FROM “THE SAD TALE OF CAIT MCINNISH,”

CHAPTER 13,

Legends of the North

AND SO ON ONE BRIGHT, COLD DAY, CAIT WAS TAKEN to the water’s edge and put into a rowboat. The wind had teeth that bit through the simple shift she wore, the water so cold it seemed to burn when it touched her bare feet.

The laird’s men were in another boat, tied to hers with a rope, and they rowed her out into the gray water while her stomach churned like the waves. They were just off the small rocky outcrop where, years before, men from her village had built a lighthouse, when the laird’s men untied the rope from her boat and rowed away again.

Her own small boat creaked and Cait shivered, smelling salt and sea and stone. Overhead, the light in the lighthouse flickered, and she stared at that bit of flame. Her father had helped build the lighthouse, had been the first to light the beacon. This is what Cait’s family had done for the village, and the village had still left her to drown or starve or go mad with thirst all the same.

Cait did not believe in magic, but there must have been some magic in her veins. Or if there was not, perhaps her heart was so broken that something dark was able to slither through the cracks.

She stared at that flame until her eyes burned, until her hands, still tied behind her back, began to tingle.

And the flame went out.

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