The Island by Guy N Smith

Author:Guy N Smith [Smith, Guy N]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Horror
ISBN: 9781907846465
Publisher: Black Hill Books
Published: 2012-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

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Edith had crept along the beach, clambering over slippery rocks, the spray from the Cauldron stinging her face. There was no sign of Zoke; he had stopped setting traps for seabirds on the shore since she had begun knocking them down. In all probability he was trapping elsewhere. Probably on the big marsh, because last night they had eaten wild duck.

There was a fish in the small cave, a mackerel that was slippery and almost slid through her fingers. Ugh, it smelled, and she knew full well that it was one which he had found on the shore, washed up by the tide. Revolting! She threw it and watched it bounce off a rock. The tide took it, reclaimed it. She wasn’t hungry, anyway, because of the duck meat they had eaten. Damn Zoke for bringing food back to the bothy when he should be starving her mother and her sisters. She would speak to him about it. They were hungry, but not hungry enough.

She glanced about her slyly, looking up and down the shore. Waves were breaking on the rocks, throwing their spume high into the air. Winter was blending into autumn. Tensing, straining her eyes; there was nobody in sight, neither her mothers and sisters, curious where she disappeared to for lengthy spells lately, nor Zoke, spying upon her. Afraid of her now that he had revealed the Power to her.

The Power was unbelievable, exhilarating and very frightening. Even the boatman was not aware of her discoveries, or who she met and talked with from time to time. As she stood there making sure that she was alone, she recalled that first meeting with the one she called ‘Master’.

Edith had gone into the big cave on the Cauldron’s treacherous beach one late summer evening. Curiosity had prompted her to explore, combined with a desire to waste more time so that she did not have to return to the bothy and her bitching companions. At first she was fearful of the darkness, the black rocky interior which was coated in slimy seaweed and dripped icy water. She was not sure how far the opening went back into the cliff face, but she decided to walk a little way and see if it came to an end. It might be the beginning of a deep tunnel, in which case she was not going to venture too far.

It was really a large room hewn out of the rocks by erosion, a place of death if you happened to be trapped here at high tide. There was no way out; you would drown. Edith shivered, toyed with the crucifix around her neck and turned it upside down the way Zoke had shown her; there couldn’t really be anything in it, she thought, but if it made the old boatman scared of her then that was fine, she would take advantage of it.

The interior of the cavern was gloomy, its recesses bathed in black shadows. She listened to the rumble of the ebbing

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