Siege of Heaven
“My soul was falling through an endless chasm, and though it was sickening it did not hurt yet. That would come when I hit the bottom. For now, I wandered across the hill until I found the Varangians’ tents. Aelfric was there.
‘How is Sigurd?’ I asked, forcing the words through my constricted lungs.
‘Unchanged. The fever seems a little less.’ ‘Has Anna seen him?’ Aelfric fixed me with his uncompromising blue eyes. ‘She isn’t here.’ My tumbling soul knocked against a looming cliff, careered off i...t and continued its descent. ‘Where is she?’ Aelfric turned his eyes away, looking over my shoulder and into the darkening east.
‘In the cloisters behind the cathedral.’ I stared at him.
‘In Antioch.’ I ran.
Whatever excesses I had expected from the plague city – baying mobs hunting through the streets, doomed men and women tupping like dogs in doorways, corpses burning on open fires or lying unburied at the roadside – the reality was different. Moonlight washed over empty streets, and most of the houses were dark – though the city was not empty.MoreLess
‘How is Sigurd?’ I asked, forcing the words through my constricted lungs.
‘Unchanged. The fever seems a little less.’ ‘Has Anna seen him?’ Aelfric fixed me with his uncompromising blue eyes. ‘She isn’t here.’ My tumbling soul knocked against a looming cliff, careered off i...t and continued its descent. ‘Where is she?’ Aelfric turned his eyes away, looking over my shoulder and into the darkening east.
‘In the cloisters behind the cathedral.’ I stared at him.
‘In Antioch.’ I ran.
Whatever excesses I had expected from the plague city – baying mobs hunting through the streets, doomed men and women tupping like dogs in doorways, corpses burning on open fires or lying unburied at the roadside – the reality was different. Moonlight washed over empty streets, and most of the houses were dark – though the city was not empty.MoreLess
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