Raven of the Waves by Michael Cadnum

Author:Michael Cadnum
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781504019682
Publisher: Open Road Media Teen & Tween

Aethelwulf hurried up the muddy street. “Frea is like a stone!” said Alfred the clay cutter. “Lying on the floor, her mouth agape, and going all over blue.”

Aethelwulf prayed to Saint Anne, the patroness of troubled women, who understood their problems. He had to stop for a moment to catch his breath and lifted a hand to win the clay cutter’s patience.

A maiden of the village was smiling from a doorway, offering him a plate of fresh-baked bread, and the abbot could not help lingering for one stolen moment, breathing the delicious yeasty fragrance. He had no time to take a taste, even though long experience told him that poor Frea was beyond all human aid.

He heard a cry and turned.

He saw the blood first. A man ran toward him down the muddy street, his face scarlet with it. The incredibly bright blood coursed and trickled even as the man ran. Blood washed the man’s tunic. That a man could run with so much blood flowing from his head was grotesque. And when the man spoke, his teeth were white within the scarlet mask.

The man was an impossible apparition, jabbering at Aethelwulf. The poor creature held him with a bloody hand. It was Edgar the fowler, a man who lived at the edge of the village, near the river, where the damp earth rose up in puddles that favored the raising of ducks.

“Strangers, Father!” cried the injured man, sinking to his knees. “They’re killing everything that lives!”

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