Thunder God (2014)
“My mind was taken up by thoughts of the King’s tax men. Word had spread through the village that they would soon be here. Some favoured gathering our money now, to pay them as soon as they arrived, but since we did not know how much they would demand, the decision had been made to wait. I wondered how we would be able to pay them anything at all, since we had so little already. I had become so preoccupied that I did not hear someone approach until a rustling in the doorway brought me to my sens...es.It was Kari. ‘I came to talk with you,’ she said.‘About what?’ I asked, wiping the sweat from my forehead onto my sleeve.She came inside and sat down on one of the benches which lined the walls. With the expanse of empty seats stretching out on either side of her, she looked small and pale and lost. ‘About Cabal,’ she said.I went and sat beside her.‘I am frightened,’ she said. ‘What I saw in him last night, I had not known was there.’‘He has a hatred for the Christians,’ I told her.‘But he will not tell me why.’ Now she set her hand upon my arm.MoreLess
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