Kestrel's Talon (The Stonewatchers Book 1) by Bey Deckard

Author:Bey Deckard [Deckard, Bey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780994790071
Published: 2016-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Punishment and Celebration

Horthmont Castle, Holy Prentish Empire, fifteenth of Summerthird, 2426

Kes sat brooding in the big overstuffed chair he’d found in a study on the second floor. In front of him, Blackeværs Woods stretched out to the horizon, the dark pines barely livened by the rising sun. He’d been on tenterhooks for two days now, in agony over not knowing when Grim and Talon would be back. When they didn’t show up the previous day, Kes had resorted to mixing himself a mug of the pain potion for its soporific effects, hoping that he would get a half-decent night’s sleep.

He had jerked awake, eyes wide in the dark, startled out of sleep by a touch of something on his arm. At first, his heart had stilled in his chest. However, a second later, he’d recognized the face staring down at him, just a pale shape against the inky gloom.

Ghost had seemed terrified and had begged Kes to let him sleep with him. After a few confused, groggy moments, he’d consented and let the boy spend the rest of the night with him, Pants in a warm, snoring crescent at their feet. He’d felt a bit odd about sleeping naked with the boy, but in all innocence, Ghost assured him that he was used to it since he always slept with Talon when he had nightmares.

Kes watched a flock of mountain geese rise into the sky, his mind on what Ghost had said: that Talon made the nightmares go away. He frowned and rubbed at his forehead, feeling weary and anxious. His own nightmares had come back with a vengeance after Talon had departed—the link hadn’t even occurred to him before Ghost had mentioned his own. Did Talon really make the nightmares go away? He thought about how, since he’d arrived at Horthmont, all of his nightmares had ended as pleasant dreams. And there was the strange familiarity with Grimma in those dreams, as if they’d been together for a long time. Finally, there was something Grimma had said about Talon helping him through his transformation. What was it? Reaching into the darkness to find him? Or was that Maz? Shaking his head, Kes wondered what it could mean.

“Come home,” he whispered, trying to send his thoughts out into the wind. “Come home so I can shake the truth out of you.”

And kiss you. Mostly so that I can kiss you. Kes smiled.

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