Broken Bones: Age Of Magic - A Kurtherian Gambit Series (A New Dawn Book 6) by Hopkins Amy & Anderle Michael

Author:Hopkins, Amy & Anderle, Michael [Hopkins, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2018-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Julianne gratefully accepted the bowl of stew in one hand and a warm, fresh bread roll in the other.

"What did you add?" Marcus asked through a mouthful of food. "This has spices I didn't bring with me. I don't think I've even tasted them before.”

"I’m glad you like it," Megan said. The young redhead had introduced herself as Jackson's youngest daughter, and apparently, she'd been in charge of preparing their meal. “It’s an herb that grows like a weed around here. Tastes just fine…until it's the only damn thing in town left to flavor food with. After tasting it every day for three months, it makes you start to wonder if flavoring your meals with cow dung might be nicer.”

Marcus winced in sympathy. "Well, as someone who is trying it for the first time, it definitely tastes better than that stuff.”

"The lad’s right; it is a good feed. We really can't thank ye enough." Garrett clapped a hand over his mouth to catch the spray of food that flew out when he spoke. It didn't seem to bother him—he licked his lips, pulled the chunk of potato from his beard, and popped it in his mouth with an expression of joy.

"Garrett's right," Julianne said. "We know you're struggling to provide for your own people, let alone feeding us.”

“You seem to be forgetting that it was you who provided the meat,” Jackson reminded her. “We just added a few ingredients to fill it out and threw in a bit of herb. We figured you wouldn't be as sick of it as we are."

"Are you really going to take us with you?" Megan asked quietly. "Somewhere safe? I don't even remember what it's like to go to bed and not have to wonder if I'll still be alive in the morning."

Julianne's face creased with sympathy. "We will take you with us—all of you. We won't abandon you, and we won't leave you anywhere we can't be sure you’re completely safe, even if that means you have to come all the way back to Tahn with us."

"We'd even take ye back ta the Arcadian Valley." Garrett wiped some gravy from his mouth before continuing, “Hell of a trick that’d be! Ye’d have ta cross the Madlands; a place the remnant call their own. Not ta mention the mountain!" Garrett's eyes shone as he remembered his home. He raised a hand and slowly drew it across the sky as he described the place he’d grown up.

"Imagine a mountain stretching so far inta the sky the top is tipped with clouds.”

The villagers nodded, and more than one darted a glance at the nearby range. It was tipped with clouds for most of the day, but they let him continue.

“When yer there on a stormy day, yer livin’ right in the guts o’ the clouds. On those days ye can look out the window and not see the far side o’ the street. Ye have ta be careful on days like that." He opened his eyes wide, warning etched on his face.

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