Page 111 of Bride of Mist
“I know.”
“We aren’t going to just let him go and wait for his return, are we?”
“Nay.”
“So what are wereallygoing to do?”
“Follow him, of course,” Gellir said.
Adam shook his head. “He must think we’re complete fools, letting him ride off like that.”
“I suspect he’s not thinking clearly at all. He’s blinded by love.”
Adam shuddered in disgust.
“Come now,” Gellir chided, looping his arm around Adam’s shoulders as they set off down the road. “All in all, he doesn’t seem to be a bad sort.”
Adam smirked. “We’ll see what Feiyan has to say about that.”
“She didn’t kill him,” Gellir said. “That has to account for something.”
“Hist!” came an urgent whisper.
Feiyan wanted to rouse. But her head was heavy. Her tongue was thick. And her eyes wouldn’t open.
“Wake up!”
She groaned and tried to lift her head. Pain pumped through her skull with every beat of her heart.
“Come on. I’ve brought ye ale.”
Prying open her eyes, she managed to ease up to her elbows from the bed of packed sand. She blinked. Where was she?
The last thing she recalled was getting walloped with a chamberpot and sinking onto the floor of the laird’s bedchamber.
Here the light was dim. The air was dank and musty. The odors of mold and rock and seaweed filled her nostrils.
“Where am I?” she croaked.
“Here.” A cup of ale was pressed against her mouth.
Looking over its edge, she saw her visitor by the light of a candle.
“You,” Feiyan accused. “You clouted me with a chamberpot.”
“Drink,” the maid urged.
Feiyan eyed the cup. “’Tisn’t poison, is it?” she rasped out.
Though she was vexed at the conniving maidservant, Feiyan had only herself to blame for what had happened. She should never have dismissed the lass as helpless.
“Nay.”
Feiyan reluctantly took a sip from the cup. Three swallows later, when she could speak properly, she sat up.
“What is this place?”
From what she could see by the candlelight, the walls were ragged, carved out of rock. The floor was made of sandy soil. And in the distance, she could hear the crash and sizzle of breakers upon the beach.
