The Awakening by Nora Roberts
Author:Nora Roberts [Roberts, Nora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2020-11-22T16:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Wind blew in from the sea and swept clouds, gray at the edges, east, over a wide roll of fields and the rocky promontories above them.
At least, she assumed east. For all she knew the sun rose in the north here. Some sort of grain grew in the field, swaying gold over the green. She spotted movement along the tower of rocks, and thought goats until she clearly saw two-legged creatures, wearing caps and long vests.
As she wondered over that, a group of kids she estimated as about the same age sheâd once taught came into sight around a turn of the road. Pushing, elbowing, but in joking ways.
She counted five of themâtwo girls, three boys. One of the girlsâdark skin, hair a mass of blue-tipped black braidsâheld up a hand.
When she dropped it sharply, she and two of the boys raced off in a blur of speedâimpossible speedâwhile the other girl sprouted rainbow wings and bulleted through the air and the third boy dropped to all fours and became, in front of her eyes, a young horse that galloped after them.
âThatâs something you donât see every day, unless youâre here.â She glanced down to see what Bollocks thought of it, but heâd already run to and into the water.
She followed him down and, because her head ached, sat on the sandy shale and closed her eyes.
It soothed, the brisk wind, the lap of the water, the splashes and yips of the puppy.
Sheâd accepted the impossible as truth, Breen thought, and now she had to decide what to do about it.
She heard a cry, looked up to see a hawk circling.
And Morena sat down beside her.
âShowing off for you, he is.â
âHeâs entitled to show off. Heâs so beautiful.â
âWe saw you wandering down this way, but you seemed well inside your own head.â
âI guess I was. I saw kids, five of them. If I have it straight, one was a faerie, one a were-horse. The other three were fast, ridiculously fast.â
âElves. I saw them myself. Theyâre fast friends, that lot. Youâll usually see another girl with them, but sheâs on a day of punishment for using a spell to do her chores.â
âSo, one of the Wise?â
âNot so wise to think she could get away with not doing her chores proper as she was told to.â
Rules, Breen thought, and discipline for children. âSo using magick to do the dishes, for instance, isnât allowed.â
âWeâll say itâs situational. Itâs discouraged, especially in the young ones, to take the short way. You have to learn how to milk a goat, plant a carrot, wash your linens, and all of it. Otherwise, youâll end up lazy and fat, wonât you? Magicks are a serious business, not that they canât and shouldnât be fun along with it. But theyâre not a convenience. If only that, you stop honoring what you have.â
Simple, Breen decided. And in its way, pure.
âI donât know what to do with what I have. I lit a candle today. It took an hour of Nanâs coaching, but I lit it with an indrawn breath.
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