Misthaven: The Complete Trilogy by J. Battle

Author:J. Battle [Battle, J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Battlewrite
Published: 2017-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 45 Fleur

‘I’ve asked him and he wanted more coin, but I gave him one of my looks, I did, and he said he‘d tell me.’

‘And?’

‘Well, sis. I don’t know. He said there weren’t no words for what you want. He said the book is full of words to tell you what to do with the Magic, and how to make it do what you want, but nothing about how to get the Magic. If you ain’t got it, you ain’t got it. It’s as simple as that, it is.’

Fleur sighed and tried to get more comfortable in her chair. It was no more than she expected.

‘But, I don’t see how your hands are not burnt. I smelled them burning and I saw the flesh peeling away from your fingers.’ He lifted her hands in his. ‘But there ain’t nothing wrong with them. So, you must have had the Magic in you.’

Fleur pulled her hands back and dropped them onto her belly. There had been no more words inside her head since she’d closed the lid on the chest and pushed it back into its hiding place. Perhaps it had all been a dream. It surely could not have been her baby speaking to her. Could it?

‘Anyway, I gave him a bit of a smack, to be sure he weren’t telling me lies. It weren’t hard or nothing. You could have hit him harder, but he was sobbing like a babe, he was, and I don’t reckon he’s got the strength to lie.’

‘He’s probably right. I don’t feel nothing, and I reckon I would. Meldon seemed to glow with it when it was on him, and I’m not getting any of that.’

‘So, what now? We make a run for it? Take what we can and show them our heels?’

Fleur shook her head and frowned. ‘Not yet. We might have to, some time. But not just yet. Not when we can still succeed. Now, you go and get the lads, as many as you can, and get them ready. If we can’t think of some way to control those fool nobles and courtiers, then we’ll have the lads come along and take everything they have, and strip the palace as well. There’ll be no running off with what we can carry in our purses. We’ll take wagon loads when we go, and mayhap we’ll stroll down the street and take a drink if we please, for there’ll be no-one left alive to come after us.’

Rekk nodded his head and smiled, and he bounced on his heels. ‘My, sis, you’ve turned hard, you have.’

Fleur matched his smile with a tired one of her own. ‘I’ve always been hard, Rekk, but now I’m going to be a mother, I have to be harder still.’

Rekk rested his eyes on her bulging belly. ‘The baby, it’s alright, ain’t it? Can you… women feel babies moving in their bellies, don’t they? Can you feel it, you know, since…?’

‘Ay, Rekk, I felt him right after, but he ain’t moved much since then.

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