The Warrior in the Mist by Ruth Eastham

Author:Ruth Eastham [Ruth Eastham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911342397
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Published: 2017-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

The trees closed in. They were getting really near to the clearing now. The only sounds were their breathing and their footfalls on the narrow woodland path.

At one point a message pinged through on Aidan’s phone from Dad; he was held up in the city and wouldn’t be back for the festival. But Aidan managed to push away his worries about the chariot race. Imagine they found something in the clearing! Imagine the news he might have for Dad when he came back!

They broke out into the space, the huddled circle of woods at its edges. Aidan saw the mound rising from its shadowy centre, and the ancient horse chestnut tree that grew on its top, its thick roots breaking the surface of the slope. The strange pocket of silence where no creature stirred. Its eerie blue shadows.

Now he was here again, Aidan felt a strange awe.

He remembered the cloaked woman he’d seen there. That same face in the glass of the museum case, with its grey-green eyes.

A shiver brushed the back of his neck.

He thought about that aerial shot the drone had captured. The dark gold circle marking out this clearing like the shining centre of a target. The torrential rain would have washed away all traces of it now, for sure. But this was the place. He was certain of it.

‘Come on!’ Aidan said to the others, scrambling up the incline.

Close up, the ancient horse chestnut tree looked more dead than alive. It loomed over them, a cage of great branches twisting over and round in a gnarled mesh.

There is something here, Aidan told himself. There has to be.

Anything seemed possible in this secret place of mysterious mist-blue shadows.

Emmi and Jon looked at him, bright-eyed, and the three of them crouched in a line, ready to search.

‘Let’s find that tomb,’ he said.

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