Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Wide-Eyed and Lovely

Ciaran knew her voice - it was the woman who had come seeking peat, the woman her father had turned away. He’d tried to ask Fingula about the ‘holy men’, but she’d just shuddered and shook her head and asked him to help her build a fence to pen in her goats. Ciaran glanced at his father, but Eoghan hadn’t noticed.

Ciaran rose to his feet, started toward the hut, and then he paused, for the woman was standing beside his window, and she’d flung back her hood, raised her arms as if she could catch the bird.

She was lovely.

2 comments:

grburbank said...

I'm glad you're back. I'm enjoying the new story arc so far.

Nagi said...

It's good to be back. Not sure that the middle of bar prep is the best time to be back, but we'll see, won't we?