Seven of Swords (The Seventh Wave Trilogy Book 3) by Lewis Hastings

Author:Lewis Hastings [Hastings, Lewis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hobeck Books
Published: 2020-12-07T22:00:00+00:00

Half a mile away, Constantin’s younger team had edged down a bank and lowered Cynthia into the Thames. They couldn’t do it quick enough. Touching a body is considered taboo by Romani, connecting to the supernatural, something that is to be avoided.

They turned, but one, the youngest, couldn’t take his eyes off the body as it began its last journey, face down along the impressive river; covered in a veil of mist and drifting silently towards the sea.

Cynthia moved gently with the tidal flow before getting stuck in an eddy, which caused her to slowly turn. The men watched, transfixed, as she appeared to come back towards them.

Romani believe that the dead might come back to wreak havoc on the living. Their rituals are massively different to other ethnic groups. They distance themselves from the dead, burning their possessions, asking for forgiveness and concern themselves that should they not make a good impression on the dying or dead, that the spirit will return as a Mulo – what gypsies refer to as the undead.

Their greatest fear is that the spirit may reappear to resolve unpaid debts.

“That woman has a debt to settle. Come on, let’s go. Please. We need to go now.” The boy’s voice was breaking, stammering. It wasn’t the cold.

Watching Bell’s corpse change direction caused the men to retreat up the bank, one falling, sliding into the river, grabbed by a friend.

“Get me out. Get me out!”

Bell turned over in the frigid river, her face now visible in the partial moonlight. She was staring at the men; her face illuminated, cold eyes open. The water began to cover her face, but they could still see her, just beneath the blackened water. They were unable to look away. Mesmerised.

She began to slide into the depths, her grotesque arm the last thing to disappear below the surface.

And she was gone. For now.

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