The Deer King_Novella One by Ben Spencer

Author:Ben Spencer [Spencer, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knock-Knee Books
Published: 2018-07-02T05:00:00+00:00

The Massaporans gathered again that evening. The same villagers that had spent the day pretending Emmaline didn’t exist coalesced in a demoniac mass behind the child with green-flame eyes, only to disperse into the expanding night when the child’s eyes went soft and he ran to Emmaline for comfort.

Tonight, she tried to make a study of him. It was clear that he wasn’t like other children, for reasons above and beyond the obvious. He moved with a feral grace befitting a young animal of the woods, not a human child of one year, and the strength residing in his small frame was apparent even when he slept, the latent power like an unspoken threat against anyone who drew near. His hair was a thick, rich brown thatched with the debris of the woods, sticks and leaves and skittering insects, though on him the debris had a crown-like rather than a desultory effect. The antler nubs on the crown of his head poked through his hair like stony mounds. Emmaline desired to see his green-flame eyes, but now that he was in her arms he wouldn’t open them. She told herself that if she stayed awake she would be rewarded with a glimpse in the morning, but sleep came like a thief in the night and stole away her willpower.

When the sun rose, he was gone.

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