The Eye of the Falcon by Michelle Paver

Author:Michelle Paver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2015-01-04T16:00:00+00:00

When the lion cub awoke, it was the middle of the Dark. She lay contentedly snuffing the boy’s warm foresty scent. Then she rolled over and flung one forepaw across his face to wake him up.

He mumbled and pushed her off, and she nosed his flank, but he went on sleeping. Such sleeps these humans had, she thought fondly. And always in the Darks, the best time to hunt!

The lion cub was happy. The boy hadn’t abandoned her, he’d come all the way across the Great Gray Beast to find her. Now they would never be parted, not ever again.

Rising to her feet, she had a good long stretch, then padded over to the sleeping girl and gave her a light muzzle-rub, because she too was part of the pride.

On a rock near the mouth of the lair perched that falcon who’d taken to hanging about. The cub thought about taking a swipe at her, but the falcon guessed and flew to the top of a pine, where she sat glaring down at the cub. Twitching her tail, the cub glared back. Stay away. They’re my humans.

Suddenly, the lion cub pricked her ears. The wind carried voices: stealthy and human. Flaring her nostrils, the cub picked up the scent she’d smelled before: the humans who’d been watching the pride all through the not-Light, although the boy and girl hadn’t noticed.

The humans were easy to find in the Dark, two men crouching behind a rock a few bounds above the lair. They weren’t the terrible men with the flapping black hides, but they were sneaky, and they worried the cub. What did they want?

Picking her way noiselessly between the pines, the lion cub climbed in a wide loop so that the sneaky humans wouldn’t sense her, then belly-crawled closer.

When she was within an easy pounce, she snarled.

The men fled in terror, and she bounded after them—not to catch them, just to scare them into not coming back.

Then, when she was sure they were really gone, the lion cub trotted back to the lair and settled down to guard her humans.

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