Tiernan, Cate - Balefire 02 - A Circle of Ashes by Tiernan Cate

Author:Tiernan, Cate [Tiernan, Cate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance
ISBN: 9781435267183
Google: JQU2uZkqQQ8C
Amazon: B00AFYCJ9Q
Goodreads: 17472942
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

They’ve Seen What Happened

“But they weren’t hurt?” Ouida asked, looking back at Petra in her rearview mirror.

“No,” Petra said. “They went to school today, but their hands and faces look sunburned.”

“And you don’t know how it happened?” Sophie asked.

“They were doing a spell,” said Petra. She closed her eyes and leaned against her seat back, glad that Ouida was driving. She felt like she had aged more in the last seventeen years with Clio than she had in the two hundred years before that. “A spell to see what might be causing Thais’s magick to explode.”

“I’m sorry,” said Ouida. “How’s your house?”

“Water damaged, from the fire trucks,” said Petra, wishing she could block the picture of her charred house from her mind. “The whole back of the house went up. It’ll need to be scraped and sanded and painted and maybe a quarter of the weatherboards replaced. The windows are cracked and need new glass. Inside, the house smells like a smoke pit. Thais and Clio stayed up late, trying to mop up the water in the kitchen, but it’s going to take weeks to get the house back to normal.”

She opened her eyes and saw Ouida looking at her in the mirror.

“Do you think this lends credence to your darktwin theory?” she asked.

“I don’t know,” said Petra, feeling worn out. First that difficult birth all day and then coming home to find her house on fire. Clio had been upset about not being able to save Petra’s books and tools, as if she would care about those things. And they hadn’t been touched anyway. Her first, panicked thought had been that someone else had set the fire, trying to harm the girls. But it didn’t seem like that was the case.

“Why don’t you try to get some rest?” Ouida suggested. “I’ll wake you up when we get to Chacahoula.”

“Maybe I should.” Petra looked out the car window, thinking. “You know, the girls have shared visions of that night, the Treize, by the tree, with Melita. They’ve described the action as if they were there.”

Sophie turned around in her seat, horrified. “Pas vraiment! But how could they?”

“I don’t know,” Petra answered. “But they’ve seen what happened. More than once. Really seen it—the rain, the power surge, the lightning. Cerise.” Even after all this time, it was a fresh pain, the memory of her daughter. Since then, Petra had tried to help as many other women give birth as she could. “And last night, they saw someone facedown in a swamp and a dark figure standing over her, holding something, some kind of weapon. Thais described her as dark-haired, black-eyed, and beautiful.”

“Not Axelle,” said Ouida.

“No. Axelle’s best friend.”

“Melita?” Sophie asked. “They saw her dead?”

“I don’t know if she was dead,” Petra said slowly. “Clio just said she was facedown and someone was standing over her. And it was clearly a scene of danger. Maybe she was killed that night—or maybe just threatened or injured? I don’t see how she could have died….

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