Love and Sacrifice: Book Two of the Prophecy Series by Tove Foss Ford

Author:Tove Foss Ford [Ford, Tove Foss]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Eirdon Books
Published: 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00

Leptham, Mordania

6

Face the Storm

K

atrin sat in the gentle surf on the beach at Leptham, watching Borsen walking out of the waves toward her.

They had been here a week and already she felt incredibly improved. She spent hours sitting in the surf every day, letting the sea water wash her wounds. The redness and swelling were diminishing, as was the terrible smell. Doctor Franz said it was the best thing she could do. Several of the injuries were healing cleanly now.

She loved the quiet and the endless gentle swish of the waves on the sand, the horizontal lines of sea and sky. It rested her. It helped her clear her mind of the nightmares, sleeping and waking, that had tormented her since she was Suspended.

“You’ll get all wrinkled, Cuz, lying in the water like a crab,” Borsen smiled. He settled beside her in the shallow waves, leaning against her companionably as he wiped his glasses dry on one of her towels.

“I am anyway,” Katrin smiled.

“It’s not so bad now that you’re filling out again,” Borsen assured her.

“Am I?”

“Oh yes. I’m a tailor, I notice these things.”

“Well, I’m glad to hear it. I look like some dried up thing you find in an attic.” Katrin sighed and lifted her arm free of the water. The flesh still hung on her bones and looked horribly unhealthy.

“It will come back. I heard Franz saying you’re young enough that you’ll make a very good recovery.”

Katrin sighed. “Yes, but not a full one.”

“No there’s no way anyone would ever completely recover from something like that,” Borsen said quietly. “You just go on with what you have left.”

They sat together quietly for a while, watching Hemmett thrashing through the waves and standing on a sandbar many yards out in the water, diving off, resurfacing and climbing out to dive again.

Borsen scooped up a shell that came tumbling in on a wave and handed it to her.

“That’s funny, usually you don’t get good shells here like you do on the shore at Erdstrom, because of how shallow the water is. They get ground down to nothing on the sand bars. Must be a storm out there washing them up from the deeper water,” he said.

Katrin shaded her eyes and peered out at the horizon. She shook her head. Her eyes were clearer now that her latest infection was abating, but her vision was still not perfect.

“It’s hazy,” Borsen said. “And the swell over that sandbar Hemmett keeps dancing on is getting bigger. I hope we have a storm. I want to see one come in over the ocean.” He rolled over onto his stomach and looked up at her.

“Borsen, are you going to stay at The Shadows for a while?” Katrin asked.

“Looking to get rid of me?” he smiled.

“No, but your career… you’ve worked so hard toward it, and now you never talk about it anymore.”

“I’ve been happy,” he said, studying the little mussels that washed up with each wave and then burrowed down into the sand. “And I’ve been busy enough.

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