Raging Sea by Brisbin Terri

Author:Brisbin, Terri [Brisbin, Terri]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-08-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Ran approached the ships slowly this time, trying to observe before moving closer. The ships traveled in an orderly line, coming from Westray and taking the outside channel around the islands. From their heading and speed, she guessed Father was taking them around the southern approach and through and into Scapa Flow.

As though he was going home.

It was the course set to return to Orphir.

“Come, Waterblood!” Hugh de Gifford stood at the side of her father’s ship, inviting her aboard. “Come and speak with us.”

“Ran! Get away!” her father yelled as he ran along the side of the ship. “If it is you, go! Go now!”

He could not see her as part of the sea. De Gifford now could.

“Svein, lucky for you, your daughter will not be so foolish as to leave without hearing my offer.”

She watched as de Gifford took hold of her father’s arm with a hand that glowed like the metal in a smith’s fire. Her father screamed at the agony of such a hold.

Ran moved like a wave toward the ship and placed herself on the deck before changing her form. She ran to her father and touched de Gifford’s hand, sending plumes of steam into the air. No matter how much water she put on it, the burning did not stop.

“I am here,” she yelled, stepping away, now fully in her human body. “Stop, I pray you. Stop.”

Now horror replaced the pain on her father’s face as she walked toward him. When de Gifford let go his grasp and Ran tried to help him, her father recoiled from her touch.

“What are you?” he asked. “Are you some perversion like he is? An ungodly creature?”

The words cut into her heart. But he was in terrible condition and had suffered at this evil one’s orders. Ran looked around at the other crew members and saw the same horror and fear in their gazes.

“Bjorn,” she said, walking to the older man. He backed away from her and then made the Sign of the Cross over himself, as most of them did. Askell would not even meet her eyes.

A part of her died then, realizing that they would never accept her as Ran Sveinsdottir again. Well, if she was waterblood, she would do what she could to protect them. It was the reason the old gods set up their bloodlines—to protect mankind. She faced de Gifford and studied him for a moment, now seeing the coloring of Brienne in his face.

“What is it that you want of me?” she asked. She noticed that his black hair was now more gray than black. A change since she’d seen him the first time. He seemed older now.

“I want you to take your rightful place in the order of things,” he said. “You have powers that they cannot understand or accept.” He nodded to the men who had just rebuffed her approach. “At my side, you will learn the full extent of them.” De Gifford walked closer and whispered. “You have no idea of what you can truly do.

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