Stigmata by Colin Falconer

Author:Colin Falconer [Falconer, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780857891181
Publisher: Corvus

LVII

HE DID NOT have a cross sewn on his surcoat, so he was not a crosat. Yet he wore his hair oiled back from his forehead in the northern style. He took on an army of them on his own, the soldiers said. He had already killed or wounded five of them.

So: a murderer then, like all these others. Yet he had such a peaceful expression. He looked almost – beautiful.

‘Can you do anything for him?’

All this blood in his hair, on his armour and his face. Where to begin? ‘I don’t know,’ she said. The soldiers helped her roll him on his side to remove his hauberk and his tunic. A woman’s silver comb fell out on to the ground.

His face and neck were leathered and burned by the sun but underneath his armour his skin was pale as ivory. He smelled of wood smoke and horses and blood. She laid her hands on him and prayed.

She had wondered when he would come into her life and now he was here she wondered – why? She did not know who he was but he was no stranger to her. He was the warrior she had seen in the dream, walking beside her horse.

His eyes flickered open. ‘Alezaïs,’ he said. ‘I have missed you.’

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