Prophecies, Libels & Dreams by Ysabeau S. Wilce

Author:Ysabeau S. Wilce [Wilce, Ysabeau S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: fantasy, Fiction, historical, short stories
ISBN: 9781618730909
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 2014-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

IX. Thy Baited Hook

Here is Hardhands, returning to the Waking World. His blood is mud within his veins, he can barely suck air through stifled lungs, and there’s a droning in his ears, no not droning, humming, Tiny Doom:

“Kick her bite her that’s the way I’ll spite her! Kick her bite her that’s the way I’ll spite her! Kick her bite her that’s the way I’ll spite her!”

The view aloft is raven-headed angels, with ebony black wings swooping loops of brocade across a golden ceiling. Then the view aloft is blocked by Tiny Doom’s face; she still has the sugar mustache, and her kohl has blurred, cocooning her blue eyes in smoky blackness. Her hat is gone.

“Don’t worry, Bwannie.” She pats his stiff face with a sticky hand. “Pig will save us.”

His brain heaves but the rest of him remains still. The frame of his body has never before been so confining. Diligent practice has made stepping his mind from his flesh an easy accomplishment, are there not times when a magician’s Will needs independence from his blood and bones? But never before has he been stuck, nor run up against sigils harder and more impenetrable than his own. Lying in the cage of his own flesh, he is feeling helpless and tiny, and it’s a sucky feeling, not at all suited to his stature of Pontifexa’s grandson, first-rate magician and—

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