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Cover image by Comfreak from Pixabay. 42 But who would believe her if she told? The River Holters loyalty to the Scion of Jern was as much a part of them as their skin. Shan must have seen it firsthand to react in such a way. Rowan leans against the headstone of a mountaineer who died on Pillar Rock in 1923. He doesnt imagine he will be reprimanded for the sacrilege. He already has the look of a resurrected corpse. He walked here with the aid of a stick, Sumairas arm always close enough to reach out for if he needed her. Snowdrop stayed within hailing distance, her whole being radiating pride. Shed been told to dress respectfully for the internment of Eve Cater’s remains. In her rainbow Wellingtons and short tie-dyed dress, she strikes Rowan as perfect. She’s a floral tribute among the cold, dark graves. A voice drifts up from below. It echoes against the wall. It sounds like more than one voice. Sounds as if a dozen or more people are reading from the same script. Never could, she longed to say. For half an hour, Rowan sits in the doorway and drinks his coffee, his fingers hurting less as he dictates a few e-mails to people he has been neglecting. He apologises wholeheartedly to Matti, his agent, and gives him a masterfully vague precis of what hes working on. He provides a snippet of interview transcript: 30 seconds of Sumaira bitching about poor record-keeping in the bad old days and being pressured by Eve Cater to lose the FoI request. He doesnt know if hell include the snippet in the finished work, because he’s no idea what the finished work will be, but he’s no doubt that Matti will be suitably wooed. Next he contacts the assistant producer on the TV show that dispensed with his services in favour of a soap star. He keeps it light and friendly: dresses it up as an opportunity for them to have first refusal on a global exclusive’ he’s been working on since last they spoke. He copies the text and sends the same exclusive offer to half a dozen other producers and the news desk at ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. He can’t bring himself to offer it to the BBC. They always ask too many questions. My name, she thinks.I dont know my name… He lifted her, kissing her again, holding her as he moved. He kissed her so thoroughly that time, space, and reality itself seemed to waver around her. Suddenly, she was on the ground, lying in a nest of their discarded clothes. Shan claimed her body, with his mouth, with his hands. His kisses burned her skin and her nails scraped against him. He was hers, no matter what was to come, for this moment, this time, her husband, her wolf. She bit his shoulder, pulled him to her. Samara stared at the grinning dark-haired girl beside her, slender teeth piercing both lips, effectively sewing her mouth shut. Her long, filthy nails clattered against each other as her fingers twitched. Samara realised it was her own fingers that were thrumming against each other. She squeezed her hand into a fist.Oh yeah. Thanks. You too. The softness of his voice told me hed seen more than I wanted him to. It wasnt often I let someone close enough to feel the pain that was slowly drawing me into the darkness. Gabriel was different. He had pain inside him that flowed outward, mixing with mine and drawing me closer. He brought me roses the day he shot Max. I touched one of the petals. “Soft, like the skin of a newborn baby. Strange how something so beautiful could cause so much pain. I turned and raised my eyes to his. “Dont you think?” My body moved of its own volition and stepped closer to him. “Do you want to kiss me, Gabriel?” And the other Shistra-Phail will stay and guard you. Leithen will lead them. Shan fell into the darkness and the hunger of the Fell consumed him as well. No. Vertigern was not quite that much of a fool. Eve, shouts Derrick, and the tone of voice makes her stop and spin back, facing into a wind that carries the smells of sweat and rain and the old, newly stirred earth. Another tent, in the Holters section of the camp, as plain and unadorned as the others, but the figures gathered outside identified it as Dorias. Her little girl, Jerryl sat at the door, clinging to a cloth doll Leithen had made for her. Inside, Doria knelt on the floor of the narrow tent, next to a low cot. Theyd covered Devyn’s face with a sheet, but his mother still held his hand. She wept silently, tears silvering her face. When Jeren entered, Doria looked up. Grief, that was all. Dreadful, numbing grief. She sat, defeated, her arms tied behind her back, her ankles bound together, her mouth gagged. He stared and Indarin cleared his throat uncomfortably. Rowan shrinks into his coat, deep creases of concentration lining his forehead. He scowls out at the rain, blowing in from all sides, bouncing off the forest floor like coins thrown at a trampoline. Above, they sky is the colour of stagnant water. The wind hurtles in from the coast like an angry tide: tearing along the ground, reaching up to grasp bedraggled trees that creak and grown in anguish. Rowan and Snowdrop have found a kind of shelter in the boggy entranceway of this half-roofed sheep-pen. Theyre only a mile or so from home and probably cant get much wetter but the rain has throbbed them into submission. They shiver in the doorway, faces pale, hair slick, the fronts of their jackets three shades darker than they should be. They have their heads together. Gabriel nodded.She named one of them Christian and the other Joshua..