The Bird & The Lion: (The Feather: Book 1) by CJ Arroway

Author:CJ Arroway [Arroway, CJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tewhit Books
Published: 2021-05-06T05:00:00+00:00

The Raid

Evie returned to the library every day until she had read, and partly re-read, the whole of the Book of Daw.

She felt the thrill of uncovering a part of her past that she had not even known existed, so filled with excitement that at times she found herself rushing through and wishing pages away so that she could have read them and moved on to the next part already. She’d then had to go back and read a whole section again, slowly this time, to take in what she had seen.

But at the same time, she couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed. As Nan had said, the section on the Daw’s history went back only to their first appearance in The Home and Evie was as frustrated as she was fascinated by the possibilities of where they may have been before – before the Fall and all that followed.

The lore had been an education however. For the first time Evie understood the method behind some of the magic she had done instinctively, and she found – in the quiet moments she had to try it out – that she now had more control over what she was doing, it was less frantic and haphazard and more purposeful. But there were no great surprises – no amazing new tricks or dramatic spell songs that she didn’t know, or would open new doors for her, or help her find her mother.

In fact, she almost felt the lore was something of a let down. It hadn’t even covered all the small magic she already knew, let alone show more than a handful that were new to her. But she closed the book, finally, with a sense of knowing herself better.

But best of all, she thought, something important had happened – without her even noticing at first. She had tried one of the new spell songs – just a little one that drew heat from the soil so you could warm your hands in the cold. It had only been later that day, when she put her head down to sleep, that she realised she had felt no shame after doing it.

Summer was now set in, and even in the high mountains the days were getting brighter and warmer. The sheep had moved to higher pastures and food was plentiful. The Cyl now kept themselves busy repairing and rebuilding old huts, reinforcing the defences of their scattered forts, singing and writing new poems and songs.

Evie and Luda were helping with the repair of one of the forts, under the supervision of Iynta, a renowned Cyl warrior and a man who seemed to take greater pride in this rough patchwork of wood and stone than any soldier of Wyrra did in that city’s great fort.

Evie thought of the vast red stone walls of Wyrra Fortress, and looked around the wind-blown hilltop of green ditches, low walls and wooden staves where only the one side facing the valley floor could boast deep walls and a great gateway.

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