Sun Wolf 1 - the Ladies of Mandrigyn
Sun Wolf 1 - the Ladies of Mandrigyn
“The hard, leaden downpour beat a fierce tattoo on the peaked slate roofs of that crowded city with a sound almost like the drumming of hail. The cobblestones of the sloping street, three stories below the window where Starhawk sat, were running like a river; white streams frothed from the gutters of the roofs. Beyond the close-angled stone walls, the distant sea was the same cold, deep gray as the sky.
Starhawk, leaning her forehead against the glass, felt it like damp ice against her skin. Somewhere in the tall, narrow house she could hear Fawn’s voice, light and bantering, the tone she used to speak to the children. Then her footfalls came dancing down the stairs.
She is on her feet again, the Hawk thought. It is time to travel on.
The thought pulled at her, like a load resumed before the back was fully rested. She wondered how many days they had lost. Twenty?
Thirty? What might have befallen the Wolf in those days?
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