The Selkie's Song by Nancy M. Bell

Author:Nancy M. Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 'horses, london, nursing'
Publisher: Books We Love Ltd.

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Bella shifted, trying to ease the nagging pain in her neck and shoulder. No matter how she squirmed and wriggled the discomfort persisted. Giving in to the inevitable, she opened eyes gritty with dried tears. Scrubbing both fists across her eyes, she struggled to sit up. Sarie lay curled on the other side of the fire with the piskie man tucked under her arm. The little man met Bella’s gaze and raised a finger to his lips, raising his eyebrows toward the woman at his back. She nodded and got unsteadily to her feet. The blanket pooled in the sand at her feet. Bella stepped out of the folds and let her legs take her to the entrance. Pale dawn light turned the world to black and grey, the pearly mist swirling in the hollows and around the rocks standing bleakly above the receding waters of the tide. Tears threatened again and she willed them back. Idiot man, why couldn’t he see they could make this work? Given the chance, Bella was sure she could make the Council see the light and understand that she and Vear belonged together. Her head lifted as the thought struck her. She could go and talk to them herself, without the selkie knowing about it. The more she toyed with the idea, the better she liked it.

Wrapping her arms around her waist against the early morning chill, she turned back to Gwin with renewed purpose. She beckoned him with a gesture and with a great show of reluctance, the little brown man wriggled out of Sarie’s embrace without waking her. He came to stand with her on silent feet and leaned against her thigh, staring out at the sea where the choughs were just waking.

“What is it you wish, Mistress Bella?”

She glanced at his upturned face. “I need you to take me to meet this Council thing,” she whispered.

“Oh no, I willna be doin’ that, so I won’t.” His swarthy face paled and the little man shook his head violently.

“Come on, Gwin. You have to. I need to convince them that Vear and I belong together. I know I can, if I can just get a chance to talk to them.”

“No, no. T’will only make things worse. You don’t understand. There are those on the Council who wish to make trouble for the great black one. They have been waiting for him to make that one final mistake so they can banish him from the worlds of Man.”

“Why?” Bella frowned.

The piskie heaved a huge sigh. “It goes back a few long years, so it does. There was this female selkie who fell in love with a merman and went to live with him under the sea. Her family warned Gwiryon, but she was headstrong and wouldn’t hear a word against Talek. She left her home and family and no one heard a word from her until one day two years later, a small seal came to the beach where Gwiryon’s family dwelt. The poor creature was in bad shape and lay gasping on the shore.

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