Soaring Eagle's Embrace by Karen Kay

Author:Karen Kay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2012-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

He knows much. It was an odd sensation, Kali thought, this feeling that a man she had never met might know something about her. Stranger still was the sensation that she also shared some dim knowledge of him.

But Soaring Eagle was speaking, interrupting her thoughts, and he said, “He also seems to have looked into my heart, for he said that he believed you had captured my affections.”

Kali looked away. At first she didn’t speak, preferring to absorb this piece of information in silence. That’s when it happened. A sensation of déjà vu stole over her, as though she had been here before, lived this before; as though she belonged here with Soaring Eagle, and had done so for years too numerous to count.

Worse, there was more.

She said aloud, “Ah…does your father wear a yellow and blue headdress?” She asked the question as casually as she could, though secretly she dreaded the answer.

Soaring Eagle spun around toward her, giving her his full attention. And in his look was some amazement. He said, “He does sometimes.”

“With a black and yellow beaded circle in the center?”

“Aa, he does, but for special things.” Soaring Eagle raised an eyebrow.

Kali gulped.

“How do you know this? He was not dressed in those clothes tonight.”

“I…I’m not sure. It’s only that when you told me that your father is a wise man, that he seemed to know me and that he guessed what was in your heart—when you told me all those things, an image of an older man flashed before my eyes.”

“Flashed? Before your eyes?” Soaring Eagle was doing more than leaning toward her. He had come up onto his knees before her, staring at her in a most unusual way.

“Y-yes.” She tried to laugh, but the sound materialized as a jerky sort of cough.

“You have had a vision about my father?”

“I—I would hardly say that I… I mean, I did catch sight of him tonight, after all.”

“Tell me what it was that he held in his hand.”

“In his hand?” Kali asked, barely daring to glance at Soaring Eagle. “I—I don’t remember.”

“Yes, you do. What did you see?”

“Why I—I didn’t see anything that—”

“Tell me the truth.”

“I—I…” Soaring Eagle grabbed hold of her hand, held it between both of his own as though it were precious. “An animal skin,” she said after a pause. “That’s what I saw in your father’s hand. And don’t ask me what kind of animal, because I don’t know.”

Soaring Eagle dropped her hand and sat back, and truth be told, Kali was relieved. Relieved that there were no more questions, at least not right away; relieved that, at his touch, he hadn’t noticed the shiver of anticipation that had swept over her. Quickly, she stole a glance at him, discovering that his attention was riveted on something else, not her. At this moment, he appeared to be as puzzled as she.

At last, however, he sat up straighter, gazed in her direction and gave her a most perplexing look. He said, “You are a very strange white woman.

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