The Twins of Devonshire and the Curse of the Widow by O'Brien Dan

Author:O'Brien, Dan [O'Brien, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2012-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

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then breathed heavily as he charged through the shrubbery; his face assaulted by branches and tangled bundles of frozen limbs. Maian barely made a sound beside him as she kept pace with the much larger man. She moved effortlessly, and the pack upon her back looked far too large for such a child.

The woods bounced across his vision.

As he watched the girl, the slope suddenly deepened and he was caught unaware. Falling to the ground with a thud, he rolled to a stop against the stump of a tree. Maian immediately sensed Uthen’s fall and stopped beside him. Her eyes were wide and glazed as she peered close to try and look at his face. “Are you alright?” she queried, her breaths calculated.

Uthen dusted the snow off his pant leg and used the tree to level himself once again. “Yeah, wasn’t watching where I was going.”

“We have to keep going,” she replied without a moment’s hesitation, pulling on his arm urgently. Uthen looked down at her small hands and allowed himself to be led a little bit before stopping the both of them.

“Why the urgency? We are surely far enough away from town now. They wouldn’t travel this far into the forest with the Tower being so close.”

“They are not what I am worried about. The beasts are coming, I can smell them.”

“The beasts?”

“The caretaker will release them. I have been tainted by the Widow and they mean to keep me until she comes for me, just like my brother. That was the compromise. He bet the lives of our bloodline in her dark galleries.”

The howling came again. This time the beasts were close enough for Uthen and Maian to hear them. They both turned at the sound. Uthen’s face was cold and ready, Maian’s masked with fear and apprehension.

“Was that them?”

“Yes,” she whispered, her body cowering as she backed away.

Their cries came again.

This time, one of them whimpered. Uthen and Maian dashed deeper into the forest, their eyes turning away from whatever pursued them. They closed their minds as well to the sounds that came in the night.

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