The Jealous God by Brendan Carroll

Author:Brendan Carroll
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781470064303
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2011-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

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Louis Champlain was very depressed. He was sitting in Omar’s courtyard, idly tossing bread crumbs to the peacocks when Lucio found him and sat down beside him on the bench. Spring had come and April was promising to be beautiful in spite of the circumstances. They had heard nothing from Mark Andrew or his brother, Luke Matthew and nothing had come from St. Patrick’s in weeks. Omar had sent numerous inquiries to the King of England asking about the two brothers and had received no satisfactory answers. Yes, they had passed through London and yes, they had stopped by Buckingham Palace for a few days, but the King had not heard from them, since they had taken their leave for Scotland. He had promised to check on them at first opportunity, but the promise was superficial at best. They had also apologized for the breakdown in communications between New Babylon and the western islands, but, they had explained, things were very bad on the Continent; and they were having a hard time communicating with anyone. In other words, the King had more important business than to spend much time on two lost brothers no matter who they were. As far as the Isle of Ramsay and St. Patrick’s, they were not actually part of the British Empire and he had no real information about the conditions on the islands, but as far as he knew, they were intact and apparently, doing quite well, just simply isolated due to the war. No one in New Babylon believed King William Henry, but they could do nothing about it… yet.

“You know Mark Andrew could be anywhere,” Lucio told the Frankish Knight. “For all we know, he is at St. Patrick’s even now. You remember how cut off we were when we were all there, Brother. It was as if the rest of the world did not exist.”

“I remember! And I enjoyed it,” Louis grumped. “That does not help my feelings to know my wife and my son are completely cut off from me. I fail to see the purpose of remaining here. Omar has this under control. We need to go home.”

“You realize something is very rotten in England,” Lucio reminded him. “It might be difficult to get into the heart of the Empire without putting ourselves in grave danger. If King William has been able to stop Mark and Luke, then he might do the same with us.”

“Then we should at least go to Italy.” Louis removed a toothpick from his mouth and flung it at one of the peacocks strutting around the courtyard.

Lucio glanced at his companion and frowned at his long, blonde hair, which now brushed his shoulders. Lucio could not get used to seeing the Frankish Knight with so much hair. He looked entirely different, somehow younger and more… barbarian… no… that was not the right word.

Lucio picked up a small wooden box from the pavement and set it on his knees.

“I would ask your forgiveness, Brother,” the Italian began slowly.

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