The Sight by David Clement-Davies

Author:David Clement-Davies [Clement-Davies, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: (*Book Needs To Be Synced*)
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2011-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

Morgra’s face twitched and the fur around her sunken eyes seemed to quiver. The scars around her muzzle, sprouting with tufts of fur, made her look ferocious and the single, torn ear gave her an air of violence and horror. But beneath that aspect Morgra was not an ugly wolf and there was something in her look now that brought back gentler days.

For a moment, beneath the veil of anger and age and experience that had become patterned in her features, she might have been recognized as a young wolf again, full of hope and wonder and innocence. Morgra was thinking of the little pup that she had been so fond of in her youth. The pup whose life she had tried to save. But Morgra threw off the painful thoughts and returned to the business in hand.

‘I must find out more of what is happening, Kraar.’ Morgra hissed, bending her head lower and lower over the water, as if she were about to drink deep.

‘Wolfbane,’ she whispered. ‘Help me, Wolfbane. Help me to find the child.’

Dawn was coming, thin and cold. Morgra closed her eyes. In her mind she was turning her thoughts back to all she had suffered and using the angry force of those hateful memories to call to the second power. As she did so, her face lost all its gentleness and once more she was that Morgra the pack had seen above the ravine, cold and vengeful and malevolent. When she opened her eyes again she growled with disgust.

‘What’s this?’

Morgra was looking into water, but what she saw was not the pool but the sea, pounding against a rocky shore. Even as she watched she saw something moving on its edge, and then a shape sprang out of the waves and lay flapping in the burning sun. It was a fish of some kind and as it lay there it seemed to be trying to move, pressing against the rock with its stubby fins. Its eyes were completely empty but some intelligence seemed to be at work, even within its body, something driving it on.

Morgra shook her head for she had not expected to see this at all and she did not understand what it meant, but as she closed and opened her eyes again she growled with satisfaction. She was looking down on wolves in a wide valley. Some were patrolling, others seemed to be fighting, while still more were sharpening their teeth on branches and stones as they prepared themselves for what was to come.

‘The rebel pack,’ cried Morgra with pleasure. ‘At last.’ But as she spoke the breeze stirred the pool, and as it rippled and settled, now Morgra was looking directly into the face of a she-wolf. Morgra might have been looking at Larka, so uncanny was the resemblance. Yet this wolf was a grey and she had a scar that ran the full length of her muzzle, while her eyes were hard and angry.

‘Slavka,’ Morgra growled, ‘but where are you?’

Morgra paused and suddenly her eyes began to sparkle.

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