Cold Shoulder Road (2010)
““Why don’t we just set ’em free,” argued Is. “They’ll wander their own way home. Everybody round here will know they come from the King’s Head at Seagate. They’ll take no harm. After all, we didn’t hire ’em.”
But Arun said that the Merry Gentry might steal the horses, and why should poor Tom the landlord be the loser. “I’ll take them back tomorrow,” he said. “For tonight they can bide where they are, tethered under the oaks; there’s plenty of pasturage.”
From above, a voice hailed them. It was ...high and weary, rather sarcastic; it was a voice which, at many desponding moments in the past year, Is had been afraid that she would never hear again.
“Well, you two! Are you coming up? Or are you going to stand parleying there all night?”
Now they noticed that a rope-ladder had been let down. For the lowest branches of the huge chestnut tree were well out of reach.
“I’ll go first,” said Is. She had spent a great part of her life in trees, and felt comfortably at home in them.MoreLess
But Arun said that the Merry Gentry might steal the horses, and why should poor Tom the landlord be the loser. “I’ll take them back tomorrow,” he said. “For tonight they can bide where they are, tethered under the oaks; there’s plenty of pasturage.”
From above, a voice hailed them. It was ...high and weary, rather sarcastic; it was a voice which, at many desponding moments in the past year, Is had been afraid that she would never hear again.
“Well, you two! Are you coming up? Or are you going to stand parleying there all night?”
Now they noticed that a rope-ladder had been let down. For the lowest branches of the huge chestnut tree were well out of reach.
“I’ll go first,” said Is. She had spent a great part of her life in trees, and felt comfortably at home in them.MoreLess
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