Dreams of Sorrow by Shauna Lawless

Author:Shauna Lawless
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gael Song
ISBN: 9781035902187
Publisher: Head of Zeus

IV

When I woke, the cave was empty. Grá had gone. So had Anaile.

Pushing the fur from me, I sat upright. Memories of what had happened floated to the top of my mind, as if I had been dreaming of it before I woke. Niall’s lips on mine. The long white roots dragging Ardghal down into the earth, my mother crying as she said goodbye, Grá squawking at me, wings open.

The cave was eerie, even more so now that I was alone, and the edges of my nightmares still lingered. Sunlight seeped into the cave through the small circular hole in the roof, but all the meagre amount did was create grey shadows inside the blackness. Monsters of any shape or size could be lurking there, hiding, crawling toward me.

Feeling for the boulder beside the chair, I felt my way out of the cave and toward the house. My stomach rumbled as the smell of steaming fish and wild garlic floated into the air, and as my vision improved, I was able to make out the small door to the house and push it open.

“Ah, she arises from her slumber.”

I bent under the door and moved into the house to find Anaile and Tomas sitting at the table next to the fire. Tomas laughed and welcomed me in, leaving Anaile to move over to the fire to stir the pot hanging above it.

“We thought you’d never wake,” Tomas said, leading me over to an empty chair.

“I must have smelled your stew through my dreams,” I answered, taking the empty bowl Tomas handed me and setting it on the table. “How long did I sleep?”

“You were out cold for the whole night and half of today.” Anaile chuckled. “Not even Grá squawking in your ear could wake you. I don’t know what has gotten into that bird. I’ve told him you are a friend, but he keeps telling me there is danger.”

“Oh.”

Caw. Caw. Caw.

Grá, hearing his master talk of him, flew in through a small opening under the thatch. Anaile had nothing but kindness in his expression, but a small voice in the back of my head spoke to me. What if Grá was right?

I shook a little as I took my seat, remembering the conversation I’d had with Anaile before I fell asleep. If I didn’t train, I would die. I would hurt those around me. The plan I had made, that I would run away to find Niall, now hung in the air. Should I still do it? What if I was a danger to him? Even worse, Anaile knew of my plan. What would he do to me if I disobeyed?

And yet, what did anything matter if he used his potions on Niall and the man I loved forgot all about me?

“Don’t worry,” a smooth, high voice said. “Grá’s never liked me much either.”

I turned around in my chair to find a woman standing at the far end of the room. She smiled at me and brushed her fingers through her long brown hair, which ran down to her waist.

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