Bloodstone (2011)
“Consider the farmer, my brothers. When he plants the seeds for his harvest of grain, he knows that the crows will descend and eat of them. Too many birds and there will be no harvest. So the farmer will reach for his gun. This does not mean that he hates the crows or that the crows are evil.
The Wisdom of the DeaconChapter IV BETH SWUNG THE ax. It was an ungainly stroke, but the power of her swing hammered the nine-pound blade into the wood, splitting it cleanly. Wood lice crawled from the bark, and she brushed them away before lifting the severed chunks of firewood and adding them to the winter store.
Sweat ran freely on her face. Wiping it away with her sleeve, she rested the ax against the wood-store wall, then hefted her long rifle and walked to the well. Looking back at the ax and the tree round she used as a base, Beth pictured the Preacher standing there and the fluid poetry of his movements. She sighed.
The Preacher … Even she had come to regard Shannow as the man of God in Pi...lgrim’s Valley, almost forgetting the man’s lethal past.MoreLess
The Wisdom of the DeaconChapter IV BETH SWUNG THE ax. It was an ungainly stroke, but the power of her swing hammered the nine-pound blade into the wood, splitting it cleanly. Wood lice crawled from the bark, and she brushed them away before lifting the severed chunks of firewood and adding them to the winter store.
Sweat ran freely on her face. Wiping it away with her sleeve, she rested the ax against the wood-store wall, then hefted her long rifle and walked to the well. Looking back at the ax and the tree round she used as a base, Beth pictured the Preacher standing there and the fluid poetry of his movements. She sighed.
The Preacher … Even she had come to regard Shannow as the man of God in Pi...lgrim’s Valley, almost forgetting the man’s lethal past.MoreLess
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