Slight and Shadow (Fate's Forsaken: Book Two) by Ford Shae

Author:Ford, Shae [Ford, Shae]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-07-18T22:00:00+00:00

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At some completely ridiculous hour of the morning, Kyleigh woke to Silas’s hot breath blasting across her ear:

“Dragoness!”

She rolled away from him and into Nadine — who yelped and punched her in the shoulder. “It’s only me,” Kyleigh said, pinning Nadine’s arms down before she could strike a second time. Her eyes were so heavy with sleep that she could only hold them half open, but Silas wouldn’t leave her alone. He shoved on her back, rocking her so violently that she finally snapped: “What? What in blazes is so —?”

“The goats!” he hissed.

It was the horrified look on his face that drew Kyleigh to her feet.

She followed him up the winding staircase to the top of the mountain. A wide lip encircled its top, forming something like a natural rampart above the valley. The guards patrolling the rampart looked to be well into their watch: several of them blinked and tried to quickly wipe the sleep from their eyes as Kyleigh passed.

From one side of the lip, they could see the mots’ farms stretched down the mountainside. Silas pointed to Nadine’s, and Kyleigh gasped when she saw there were only two sleepy creatures left inside. The rest of her goats were missing.

“But where …?”

Without a word, Silas led her to the other side of the lip — where they could see clearly into the valley. Nadine had told them once that all of the lands in the valley belonged to the Grandmot, because it had the best soil. Silas seemed to be burning too furiously for words. He thrust a finger down at the valley’s pens.

Kyleigh scanned over the Grandmot’s herd and spotted a familiar, one-horned goat grazing among them. She couldn’t believe it.

“She stole them,” Silas hissed, his eyes bright with fury. “She crept into our territory and stole our goats with her shriveled little fingers! We should steal them back — and then eat one of her goats in warning,” he added.

Kyleigh thought that was a pretty brilliant idea, and she wanted very much to do it. But eating one of the Grandmot’s goats would probably just bring more trouble on Nadine. So she convinced Silas to sheath his claws and instead led him back to the room.

They woke Nadine, and her eyes were downcast as she listened. “There is nothing we can do,” she said when they’d finished.

“There’s plenty we can do,” Silas growled. He leaned out the window, scowling down at the valley below. “My mind is already filled with ideas.”

Nadine shook her head. “If you try to take them back, you will be breaking our law. And I will be punished for it. No one tends the Grandmot’s soil,” she explained. “Everything that grows on her land is a blessing from Fate. Her rice seeds are carried in by the wind, her fruit grows up on its own, and any animal that wanders into her pens is hers by right. If my goats have crossed to her lands,” Nadine straightened up, “then it is because Fate willed it.

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