The Fiery Aftermath by L.R. Patton

Author:L.R. Patton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dragons and danger, magical kings and kingdoms, historical fairy tale adventure and quest, epic fantasy fairy tale retelling, middle grade literature with magical creatures, Arthurian tales and fables, Nursery rhymes with fairies and shapeshifters and wizards and swords and sorcery
Publisher: Batlee Press
Published: 2016-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

House

CORA stands in the village streets, hidden in shadow. She considers what she must do. She watches the captain of the king’s guard move through the streets in a flash that is uncharacteristic of this captain of the king’s guard. She stands watch outside the window of the house into which he disappeared. She sees him measure the medicine. She sees him inject it into his mother’s leg. She sees him place it in a cupboard, behind a stack of bowls. And after he leans down to kiss his mother’s forehead, after he stands to watch her a moment longer, after he has slipped from the door of the cottage and off toward the castle, but not quite, she slips to the doorway. She turns the knob, for the houses in a village as peaceful as Fairendale have no locks to keep the world outside. She walks inside and moves toward the chair that sits beside the bed of Sir Greyson’s mother. She takes the old woman’s hand.

Why is Cora here? It is difficult to say. Perhaps she loved this woman once. Perhaps she loved this woman’s son. One does many unexplainable things for love.

Cora remains in the chair all that evening and into the night. And when the first light of day appears in the east, she slips out and into her feathers. It is a blackbird that calls for the village people, just as Cora’s plans had told them.

“It is time,” the blackbird calls, and the people stream from their houses and follow the bird to the steps of the castle.

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