Sing a Graveyard Song by Remi Black

Author:Remi Black [Black, Remi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Writers Ink Books
Published: 2018-03-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18 ~ Twentieth Day / Nineteenth Day / Winter’s End

Alstera heard screaming. Someone shouldered past her. “Easy, Evangel, easy. Nothing’s going to happen. Alstera! Dammit, Alstera, look at me.”

She re-focused, her gaze swimming with the double image, dream over reality, then the connection severed. She surfaced to Jaeger brushing her hand off the woman’s forehead. His big body shouldered her aside as he patted Evangel’s hand and her face, soothing her with a man’s awkwardness.

Kortie hovered behind him. “What’s wrong? What did you do? She shouldn’t dream the dream. It hurts her.”

Alstera reached past Jaeger. The blood had dried, but its magic still streamed freely. “Let me.”

His gaze narrowed, then he edged aside, revealing his undiminished trust in her. Again she touched Evangel’s forehead and sank into the dream. She blurred the memory, blunting the sharp images, speeding up the woman’s healing by wreaking the changes that time would have forged. Then she guided the dream far, far from that nightmare. Evangel stopped writhing in Jaeger’s hold. As she quieted, the wizard again sensed another healer’s touch on her dreams.

Evangel relaxed into an easy sleep. Jaeger’s gaze, heavy and accusing, demanded an explanation, but for a moment Alstera drew into herself. She had seen the attack, Ruod killed, a corpse drinking his blood. They had rightly guessed at the old legend. The blood. A dead man walking. His spirit-glow, doubled as it absorbed Ruod’s life-force. More than she had known, but much less than she needed to know.

“What did you do?” Kortie demanded.

Alstera’s gaze locked with Jaeger’s, answering the question for him. “She will sleep easier now. When she wakes, she will be more in this reality than locked behind the past.” Then she twisted, favoring Feldie’s former apprentice with a piercing look from her wizard-clear eyes. “Why did you say she should not dream that dream?”

Looking hunted, Kortie backed a step. “I didn’t.”

“I heard you.” Jaeger blocked her denial. “How would you know what she dreamed?”

“She screamed, like she was doing when they carried her home. Like she screamed when Feldie tried to help her. She must have been having that nightmare.”

“A nightmare indeed, for it was true memory.”

“You saw—.” Her gaze flicked from side to side as if she sought an escape.

“I saw what Evangel saw that night,” Alstera said quietly. “What anyone who invaded her sleep would see. As you saw?”

“Not I! I never—Feldie never taught me to enter dreams.”

“Did you recognize the killer?”

“I saw nothing! Why do you think I did?”

Kortie was too limpid for deception. It hurt to watch her flounder. Alstera re-arranged Evangel’s covers as she built her foundation to box the woman into admitting the truth. “Someone turned her dreams before. Someone wants her to forget what she saw. Evangel may forget, but I never shall. Nor will whoever touched her dreams.”

Kortie’s hands flew to her mouth.

“If you saw,” Jaeger entered the fray, “if you can identify the killer, tell us. Tell us who he is so we can stop him.”

She moaned behind her hands.

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