Spirit of the Ruins by Lykins Jenny

Author:Lykins, Jenny [Lykins, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Jenny Lykins
Published: 2013-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

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Pierre Chalmers waited in the dark. He knew the man would return, just as he knew the woman and her husband were no longer in this time. He’d been right to do what he had when they were children. He’d “seen” that death would separate them before their time, so he had given them the means to reunite. A small thing for two children who had been kind to an old man.

He smiled. They had brought him lemonade.

A horse’s hooves thudded up the dirt path, then came the muffled footsteps of his expected visitor. The man tried to tread quietly, but even had he floated through the air, Pierre would have heard his arrival.

“Come in,” he said as the man skulked outside the open door.

“I cannot abide the way you do that,” the man growled. The breeze carried the familiar stench of liquor into the small cabin.

Pierre shrugged. “I care little for what you can abide.”

The man didn’t order a candle lit this time. At least he had ability to learn.

“He’s back,” the shadowy figure said.

Pierre nodded. “And gone again, with the woman.” He let the silence stretch for a moment. “The liquor will not change the past.”

A quiet, quickly muffled gasp came, and then a small cloth bag dropped onto the table in front of Pierre with the dull, metallic clink of gold.

“This is all I have,” the man said. “I will bring you more. Just tell me how to be rid of him.”

Pierre shoved the gold back toward the man.

“Perhaps you do not learn as quickly as I assumed, monsieur. I will not help you in this matter.”

The man thought about violence. Pierre could feel it in the very air. But he merely stared at the dark silhouette and dared him to put his thoughts to action.

Just as Pierre knew he would, the man swore, then stomped out of the cabin and into the waning night.

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