Women of the Dunes by Sarah Maine

Author:Sarah Maine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books

 Odrhan

Little by little his prayers were answered and Ulla began to speak to him. Harald had been her first love, she told him, but had been forced to relinquish her to his older brother, who took her as wife. But Erik was impotent, she had discovered, and beat her as if the fault was hers. Her life was made unbearable, so she and Harald had conspired together to leave. “He had always loved me, and he was a good man.”

From fury Odrhan’s feelings had swung to remorse and then to pity, and from there to an emotion he did not recognise.

At first he had slept outside the cell, rolling himself in hides. It mattered not where he rested because the anguish of guilt robbed him of sleep. But as the weather worsened she insisted that he sleep indoors, though he stayed close to the entrance as if modesty was served thereby.

She still visited Harald’s grave, and would take long walks along the shore, returning at sunset as he grew anxious. Once he had gone looking for her and came upon her swimming, and he had stood and watched her lithe form, his pulse racing, ashamed but unable to move.

And, as summer faded and autumn storms battered the walls of Odrhan’s cell, the warmth of the fire drew him further in, and Ulla smiled at him more.

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