Scott, Manda - Boudica 02 by Dreaming the Bull

Author:Dreaming the Bull [Bull, Dreaming the]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-08-08T22:16:28+00:00

It was a day for godsent choices, none of them

easy. Dubornos asked, ‘What happens in Rome?’

‘That depends on the emperor. I couldn’t say,

but even public crucifixion would be better than

what will happen here if you are found to be, say,

a dreamer from the rebel isle of Mona.’

‘Or a singer?’

‘The distinction is not one that Scapula will

recognize.’

Dubornos had trained for years in the ways of

the dream. At times and in places it was given him

to hear the voices of the gods, or to see their sign.

Praying to Nemain, whom he favoured,

he looked around at the grey rock and purpled

wash of the mountains, at the flesh-greased smoke

that rose from the valley, drifting south on a light

wind, at the countless crows gathering to feast on

the dead. He was considering his death and the

means by which it could be brought most swiftly

closer when a flicker on a far hillside drew his eye.

There, partly hidden by berried rowan and rock, a

handful of white cloaks flew in the wind of their

owners’ riding: the honour guard of Mona. At

their head was Caradoc and at his side, freshly

mounted on a new horse and with the gift of a

Roman legionary shield, rode the scout of the

Brigantes whom Dubornos had last seen cantering

down a mountain track towards a lost battle. All

rode north, at speed.

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