Russell Kirkpatrick - Broken Man 03 by Beyond the Wall of Time

Author:Beyond the Wall of Time
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-03T13:40:33+00:00

This totally destroyed place was the first town of any size Lenares had been in since Sayonae, the town in which she had met the woman who turned out to be her real mother. Unsurprisingly, it was to Martje that her mind turned now. She was glad that her mother was alive, and gladder still that she suffered. The Bhrudwan lord had told her what he had done to the evil woman, fully expecting Lenares to be shocked and upset at the news, but she had been happy to hear it. Very happy. The woman had raised a family in order to satisfy her monstrous husband’s perverted desires, and had shown no remorse for what he had done to them. Moreover, in her effort to recapture the person she’d thought was her wayward daughter Cylene, she had been willing to expend her sons, seemingly unconcerned that the Undying Man had hurt them. And from what Conal had confessed, Lenares knew she’d not held back from using one of her daughters as part of a magic spell to bind Kannwar. Martje had actively encouraged her daughter to have sex with the unpleasant priest as part of her plan. Still using her family as tools.

There had been a moment when Lenares had allowed herself to rejoice at discovering her true family. That moment had been all too brief. She had quickly realised that, of all her siblings, she had been the fortunate one. To preserve his secret, her father had sold her as a slave to someone who took her south to Elamaq. Lenares remembered none of it, but it must have happened that way. In the exchange she’d lost a family, but had gained a life.

This, Lenares was certain, would be the last time she thought of Martje and her natural family. For all their fractiousness, poor Rouza and Palain and the other cosmographers had been her true family. As much as they had irritated Lenares, they had lived with her and worked together with her, and some of them had even loved her. Mahudia had been her real mother, and Lenares would never forget her.

But she was alone now. All the cosmographers were dead. She had lost every member of both families. Fated, perhaps, to be on her own—though Mahudia’s unquiet shade seemed still within her reach, on the other side of the Wall of Time. She glanced in Torve’s direction, and saw him look away. She’d lost him too, she knew, through no fault of her own. The losses made her bitterly sad, but she still had work to do. Recapturing Umu would make her happy.

In the gloaming of the day, the hundred-strong band reached the base of the long slope leading to the Malayu Basin. Ahead of them the land steamed in the half-light, radiating its heat to the purpling sky as dusk gathered like a cloak of secrecy. A few of the children cried, a hungry ache beneath their ribs, as no one had found enough to eat in the village behind them.

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