Impossible by Jill Gregory

Author:Jill Gregory
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gothic romance, medieval romance, fairy tale romance, medieval fantasy romance, fantasy fairy tale romance, magical fantasy romance, fantasy gothic romance
Publisher: Jill Gregory

Chapter Six

Erinn spent the remainder of the morning exploring the ruined keep, going from chamber to chamber, roaming the corridors, trying to pick up some sense of who had cast the spell—and how—by gleaning what she could from within the enchanted walls. Tynon had wanted to accompany her, but she’d convinced him that he would only distract her from fully concentrating on what she was doing. So at last he’d relented, after demanding that she give her word she would neither hide from him nor try to run away.

She shivered as she prowled the tower and the great hall and the solar, all dim ruins of what they must have been before the spell was cast. Once she heard a boy’s laughter, echoing faintly from the rafters, and wondered if that was Rhys. And what of the mysterious Marguerite?

She had no sense of a woman’s presence, except once, as she returned to the chamber where she’d treated Tynon’s wound and saw the mirror on the wall. For an instant, as she approached, she thought she saw a ghostly flickering within the glass – an image of a woman with midnight hair that floated around a tear-streaked face—and for one chilling moment Erinn thought she could hear the sound of weeping. Then it vanished, and so did the image in the mirror. She walked closer, her skin prickling, but she saw only her own reflection looking back at her.

Thoughtfully, she returned to the sunlight to find Tynon conferring with a small group of soldiers beneath the shade of an acorn tree. The soldiers’ horses stood nearby, great beasts whose coats glistened in the sun.

The men grew silent as she approached. All but Tynon regarded her with a mixture of distrust and dislike, much as she had seen at first in Stephen’s eyes.

“So this is the infamous witch of Marlbury.” The barrel-chested soldier nearest Tynon spit the words out with contempt. “Who would have thought such a little thing could bring so much evil? My lady is trapped somewhere inside there,” he growled, jerking a thumb in the direction of the keep. “Should any harm come to her—”

“None will,” Erinn said quickly.

All of the men, including Tynon, stared at her.

“So you say,” the solider responded after a moment, his eyes slitted with suspicion. “But who can trust a witch who kills boys of twelve? My cousin met his death at Dunck Wood when the lightning struck. Your doing! His blood is on your hands—”

“Enough, Jared!” Tynon strode forward between the soldier and Erinn, his features taut. “Leave her be. You have your orders, all of you. Go now.”

“But...”

“Go!” Tynon commanded.

Jared threw one last angry glance in her direction and spun away. Tynon waited until the men had all mounted their horses and ridden off over the greening ridge before he broke the silence.

“He’s a good man, but he doesn’t know the truth. Don’t heed his words.”

“I am sorry about his cousin,” she said quietly, thinking that at twelve the boy was still

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