The Mind's Eye (SYNSK Book 1) by K.C. Finn

Author:K.C. Finn [Finn, K.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing
Published: 2014-03-30T04:00:00+00:00

The letter had come from Thomas, who was a ground mechanic now stationed in Portsmouth. Clive and Ieuan were on a plane together that went out to battle the Luftwaffe, but it had been shot down over the English Channel in the early hours of yesterday morning. Boats supporting the battle in the air had pulled Clive’s body from the wreckage, only to find that he had taken almost the full blast of the attack. He’d died on impact, before the plane even started to go down. Most of the other men had been pulled from the sea, just barely alive, and taken to hospital, but worse news still awaited the Price family. Two crewmen had not been recovered at all, and Ieuan was one of them.

For once Leighton didn’t complain when Henri wrapped his arms around me, in fact when I sat down later on the sofa with my head on Henri’s chest, my brother curled up in front of our feet like a kitten. I stroked his sun-bleached hair as he shuddered out tiny tears. For my own part the tears wouldn’t come, it was like my eyes were too shocked by it all to realise they were supposed to be crying. Henri sat in a thoughtful silence for the whole afternoon, only speaking when I asked him things; I rather thought he’d seen enough death on his way to me, perhaps he hadn’t imagined that the reaper’s cold shadow could reach us in the sunny mountains of Bryn Eira Bach.

Idrys made the decision that he and Henri would abandon the cottage over the pasture for now and come and stay at Ty Gwyn to care for Mam. I couldn’t even bring myself to be happy that Henri and I would be under one roof when I thought about Mam and Blod and the hell they were going through. For the first day in all the months I’d lived in the farm house, Blod’s radio was silent. Fourteen hours passed between the arrival of the post and me settling into bed for the night, yet I was sure that I could still hear Mam crying through the ceiling above my head. I wondered how there was any water left in her body at all.

Leighton’s eleventh birthday was August 4th, just four days before Henri was due to turn eighteen, but neither boy was keen for a party, especially when it was announced that Clive’s funeral had been arranged for a date smack bang between the two. Idrys was making all of the arrangements to spare his daughter the horror, so when Henri was occupied with picking up the slack out on the farm, I started spending a lot of time with Ness Fach in the summer sun where I could see him going by as he worked.

“What’s he doin’ now?” Ness asked, bouncing on my knee and waving her Dolly in Henri’s direction.

“He’s picking up the yucky weeds,” I explained, “So they don’t make all the nice flowers…” I stopped myself before the word ‘die’ fell out of my mouth.

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