blood brothers by brian lumley

Author:brian lumley
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: fantasy, horror, vampires, Thriller, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780140169935
Publisher: RoC
Published: 1992-06-25T05:00:00+00:00

PART SIX:

Szgany Sintana - Dissension in the Aerie The Thyre

Where the river swung east in a languid curve throughdeepening forest, broadening out until details on the far bank were hard to discern, there Nathan was about ready to admit defeat. By then the morning was more than half-way through and he was exhausted; he had been on the move nonstop since before first light, a period of some thirty-two hours. Also, since the path had come to an end just four or five miles south-east ofTwin Fords, the going had been very difficult.

Now, in a sun-dappled clearing by the bank, he lay down in the long, sweet-smelling grass to sleep, and was just beginning to drowse when he was startled to hear a familiar clop, clop, clop, of cloven hooves, the creak and jolt of caravans, and the jingle of trappings and Szgany bells. Somewhere close to hand, hidden bythe river’s rearing fringe, there must be an old Traveller trail; for these were surely the sounds of a party ofGypsies, who were even now passing through.

Nathan was wrong: they weren’t just passing through but making camp, which he saw when he left the river, pushed his way through a tangle of soft-leaved shrubbery, and emerged on the old trail. And as he appearedin the open, on the ancient rutted track, so they likewisesaw him.

Brown, soulful female eyes met his deep blue ones across the trail’s width, and Nathan froze on the instant as the girl melted back into the greenery and out ofsight. He’d suddenly remembered that these were strange times, and the last thing these people would be 435

expecting was a wild man jumping out at them from the forest! On the other hand there were a good many of them, and Nathan was just one. Also, the sun was high, and so there was little chance of vampires abroadin the woods.

Certainly they were aware that the old threat lived anew in Starside; that was obvious from the moment of their first greeting. Tear down the mountains,’ said asoft Szgany voice from one side, startling Nathan.

Jerking his head in that direction, he saw a tall, lean, incredibly weathered man of indeterminate years, propped casually with his shoulder against a tree. And just from looking at him Nathan could tell that these people were real Travellers, Szgany in the fullest sense. No permanent dwelling place for such as these; township comforts had never lured them from their ways, not for more than a night or so; they had been on the move all their days, as much a part of the wilderness asthe creatures of the woods.

Which meant that they might not know of the returnof the Wamphyri after all. For among the true Travellers the old ways were still remembered as yesterday, and the old greetings - which could as well be maledictions as pleasantries, depending on the times and situation -were still very much alive. ‘Tear down the mountains,’ this one had intoned, and Nathan knew the answer.

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