The Testament of Yves Gundron by Emily Barton

Author:Emily Barton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canongate Books

The night passed, and the next day, with no sign of retribution. Though at all moments I listened warily for the trumpet of Justice, none sounded. On the second night a soft, warm shower gave way without warning to a gale whose wind swept thatch from our roofs and hatchlings from their nests. Yet though my mind warned me that this was the calamity—and only the beginning of the calamity—whose appearance we all had feared, my heart knew how we needed rain, even when it came down thus angrily. It became possible, as time passed, to walk, or tend crops, or fix one’s ruffled thatch without worrying that the world would end at any moment. If a punishment was coming, God had something subtle in mind.

Indeed, as the summer grew hotter and the long days dry, I began to wonder if the strangers had ever come—if they had not been a mere fancy of the mind. Our life had settled down as quiet as it had been before; the weather was capricious and we had lost some time to idleness and speculation, but that state of affairs we had never known to call Peace settled once more over Mandragora like a sheet set to dry on a hedge. Ruth was among us, recovering quickly, and seemed markedly less odd in the butter-yellow chemise and blue skirt Adelaïda sewed for her. Mandrik returned to tending his orchard and writing his treatise, and my wife, once assured that her house would not be swallowed by an avenging angel, returned to more ordinary spirits. The sun kept rising. Nothing we could do would change that.

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