The Dog in the Dark: A Novel of the Noble Dead (Noble Dead Series Phase 3 Book 2) by Barb Hendee & J.C. Hendee

Author:Barb Hendee & J.C. Hendee [Hendee, Barb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2012-12-30T23:00:00+00:00

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Outside the archway Chap stood paralyzed by all he experienced in Leanâlhâm’s memories. It was like reliving the mourning of Sgäile’s death all over again. He hung his head but forced himself to focus on what he had learned.

Brot’an had returned with Osha to Sgäile’s home. Cuirin’nên’a had spoken of Most Aged Father with venom in her voice and had no reason to feel otherwise for all the years that he had imprisoned her. Leesil still believed that Brot’an had gotten his mother “mixed up” with the dissidents, but Chap was not so certain. From what he now pieced together, it seemed that both Gleann and Cuirin’nên’a were participants from the very beginning in whatever Brot’an had attempted.

Leanâlhâm had not been and perhaps was not even now. She had been allowed to remain that day only because Gleann was in too much grief to be without her. And poor Osha appeared to have been as much an ignorant victim as she was.

Not so for Brot’an.

The old assassin had been forced by Osha’s naïve but honorable intentions into exposing the journal to the others. If Osha had not done so, would Brot’an have even shared Wynn’s journal with Gleann and Leesil’s mother? Perhaps—or not—but he had hinted earlier to Magiere that this journal was the crux of all that followed.

Chap still did not see how, not completely.

Leanâlhâm suddenly sat up, turned her head toward the archway, and looked right at him.

Chap froze. He’d not made a sound, not a move that could have alerted her. Yet, half-startled, she gazed at him as if she’d heard something and turned to find him watching her.

Leanâlhâm swallowed once and turned away.

Chap backed up, still distracted by what he had learned and what he had not. As he walked up the stairs, he paused once to look behind him.

Leanâlhâm didn’t appear, though he lingered there a moment longer, watching for her and feeling unsettled.

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