Icon of Gold by N/A

Author:N/A
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2016-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

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The inexorable surge reached them later that night; the defences, here as elsewhere, were hopelessly inadequate. When the sea finally broke through Cathy and Nikos, having decided to stay downstairs for the night, were dozing on the sofa. They heard nothing as the waters raged foaming through the breach then spread, silent and dark across the unprotected fields and wetlands. Only as a sullen dawn broke, grim, cold and windlashed, did they realise that Sandlings, together with its huddled companion cottage next door, was cut off, a tiny island in a vast watery landscape that spread as far as the eye could see. Trees stood in the salty water, or in some cases lay partly submerged, blown down by the gale; flotsam bobbed on the swirling tide. Track and lane had disappeared, marked only by the top few inches of hedge that stood above the flood. Water lapped at the edge of the garden and had come to within a foot of Bert’s front step. But the few feet of elevation had stood them in good stead. They were marooned, but safe. There was nothing to do but to sit it out.

‘Perhaps the gods mean us to be together for a little while,’ Cathy said, surveying the flooded landscape from the bedroom window.

Nikos put his arm about her shoulder. ‘Perhaps the gods mean us to be together for ever,’ he said.

Cathy did not reply.

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