Weighing Shadows by Goldstein Lisa

Author:Goldstein, Lisa [Goldstein, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Weighing shadows
ISBN: 9781597808408
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2015-09-21T07:00:00+00:00

SHE SAT AGAINST the wall of the church, her legs drawn up and her head on her knees. Tears ran down her face. Why had she thought she could save Hypatia, could overcome all the forces of history that had brought them to this point? She was an idiot even to have come to see her execution.

She had to stand up, get going. And do what? There was nothing she wanted from this place, nothing at all.

Those men might come out at any minute, though. She thought of their shards of pottery, their hands red and slippery with blood. She shuddered and forced herself to her feet.

She wandered through the city, the afternoon a blur. She passed a canal somewhere, and a harbor, where lines of men were hauling cargo from one of the ships to a warehouse. She found herself at the market again and she turned back resolutely, having no desire to see the ruins of the library again.

I am Seshat, she thought once, goddess of time and measurement. I know the lengths of people’s lives, the times of their deaths. And I can’t do anything about it.

She went out into the streets again the next day, and the day after that. She searched for cameras, for temples to the goddess. But she could find no cameras in the streets, and all the temples and synagogues seemed to have been converted into churches, the gold and silver and ivory stripped from their walls.

A few times she had the feeling that something else should have happened to her, that she was living in a timeline that did not exist. In her timeline, the real timeline, she hadn’t escaped from the rock-throwers at the library; something else had happened to her, something she couldn’t remember. Had she blocked it out because it was so terrible?

It was only on her third day that she remembered the key Elias had buried outside the city. She went through the Canopian Gate and came to a spot that looked familiar, but when she dug there she found only sand.

Well, of course, she thought, feeling stupid once again. Walker had taken the key with her when they’d left Kaphtor, and Elias had probably done the same thing here.

But she’d been moved ahead in time without a key. Did that mean she could return on her own somehow?

On the way back to the city she passed the temple to Ceres and Proserpina. She’d forgotten all about it, and now she hurried toward it, feeling excited. But it too had been plundered, and the statues smashed.

She sold more jewelry, and spent the money she got on food and lodging. She thought about Da Silva and Elias, wondering what they were doing, if they were searching for her. Elias would visit the famous lighthouse if he were here, and the tomb of Alexander. It wasn’t a bad idea, and every morning when she set out she resolved to go to the lighthouse at least, but every night when

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.