The Greener Shore
“My spinning thoughts concentrated on the Red Wolf. “Cormiac can’t be gone, Briga! It’s not possible.” He had become a fixture of our lives, as certain as the sun. Whatever else might happen to us Cormiac was always there.
“Well, he is. Look around.” Jumping to her feet, my senior wife circled the lodge, pretending to seek the Red Wolf in one ridiculous place after another. “Is he in the hen’s box? He is not. Is he hanging from the cloak peg? He is not.” My Briga could be playful, it was one of ...her most endearing qualities. She might almost have been playing a joke on me. But when she turned back to me and reiterated, “He’s gone, I tell you,” there was no mistaking the pain in her voice.
“This makes no sense, Briga. Cormiac would never leave you, not for anything.”
Her shoulders slumped. “That’s where you’re wrong, Ainvar. No one is ours to keep forever. Not in this life.”
I spent long days and nights lying on my bed while Briga fussed over me and made me drink vile-tasting potions.MoreLess
“Well, he is. Look around.” Jumping to her feet, my senior wife circled the lodge, pretending to seek the Red Wolf in one ridiculous place after another. “Is he in the hen’s box? He is not. Is he hanging from the cloak peg? He is not.” My Briga could be playful, it was one of ...her most endearing qualities. She might almost have been playing a joke on me. But when she turned back to me and reiterated, “He’s gone, I tell you,” there was no mistaking the pain in her voice.
“This makes no sense, Briga. Cormiac would never leave you, not for anything.”
Her shoulders slumped. “That’s where you’re wrong, Ainvar. No one is ours to keep forever. Not in this life.”
I spent long days and nights lying on my bed while Briga fussed over me and made me drink vile-tasting potions.MoreLess
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