Swords Over Fireshore by Pati Nagle

Author:Pati Nagle [Nagle, Pati]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat, Blood of the Kindred book 3
ISBN: 9781611381634
Publisher: Book View Cafe
Published: 2012-03-19T13:00:00+00:00

Luruthin held his blanket close as he hurried after Eliani. He had known something was wrong when he heard her startled cry. Now she turned and gestured to him to stay away, but he had already seen what lay beyond.

A female, dead. Birani, their clan-sister.

Shock and horror swept through him, then his gaze fixed on her throat, where dark, frozen blood had scarcely closed a sharp cut. He could smell the blood despite the cold, and it sparked a strange twist in his gut. Turning away, he stumbled a few steps and then fell on his knees in the snow, retching.

Hands gripped his shoulders as his stomach heaved. When the spasms ceased, he felt shaken and weak.

“Come away.” Eliani's voice was gentle.

She helped him stand, retrieved the blanket he had dropped and shook it free of snow, and supported him as they walked back to the hollow. Felahran and Onami came toward them, faces anxious.

“Birani has been attacked and killed. Please help Vanorin.”

Looking alarmed, they hastened past. Luruthin wished that he could help as well. He felt angry at his weakness.

When they reached the hollow he sat down, huddling in the blanket. “Go and help them, I will be all right.”

“I will not leave you alone.”

A shudder passed through him. Eliani knelt beside him and wrapped her arms around him. Warmth spread through him from her touch. He sighed and bowed his head, closing his eyes. He had not realized how cold he was.

“So your vision was a warning.”

He remembered the savage eyes he had seen, then the image of dead guardian returned to him even more vividly. Frozen blood black against her flesh, black spatters in the snow.

“But this was the work of no beast. Her throat was cut, not bitten.”

“Kobalen, perhaps.”

“Up here, in the snow? I doubt it.”

Eliani made no answer. If it had not been kobalen, it must have been alben. Yes, alben.

Horror shook him, making him shiver again. Eliani’s arms tightened around him. How had the alben found them? Had they hunted him even into the heights of the Ebons? The eyes in his vision had been golden, not black.

Fear froze his thinking, but he was able to find a flaw in the reasoning that alben had attacked Birani. If the alben had followed them, why had they waited so long, and why had they not attacked the entire party?

Sounds reached him from outside, voices and shuffling footsteps. They had brought Birani back with them, he realized as he heard them laying her down. Vanorin was talking of finding wood for a pyre.

Eliani raised her head, listening. Luruthin drew away.

“Go ahead. I am all right.”

She got up and went out. Alone behind the blankets, Luruthin shivered as he listened to their plans.

In the morning they would build a pyre for Birani, cut wood for it if they had to. They would take her sword and a few of her belongings back to Alpinon to give to her family. They had no leisure to make a conce,

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