The Broken God by Gareth Hanrahan EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Gareth Hanrahan
- Language: English
- Genre: Dragons & Mythical Creatures Fantasy
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Some days, Cari has to remind herself that it wasn’t all a dream.
The rolling of the ship is so familiar to her. The smell of sea air, the stink
of the bilges. The creaks of rope and timber, the slap of water on wood, the
shouts of sailors, all this was her life before, is now her life again. The wide
world, sea under sky. She leans on the railing by the prow of the ship,
watching the horizon. The empty expanse makes her feel deliciously
anonymous. The open ocean accepts no name that mortals or gods might try
to put on it. It admits no history, existing in one present and eternal
moment. On the ocean, it feels like she could be born anew with each
swelling wave.
On the ocean, her life ashore feels like a dream.
But it wasn’t a dream, was it, she thinks to herself, her fingers closing
around the black amulet that once more adorns her neck. She’s not
expecting an answer here – Spar is half the world away. And even if Cari
was back in the New City, standing in the heart of the great metropolis that
she inadvertently conjured from his corpse nearly two years ago, she
doesn’t know if he’d be able to answer her.
Still, she prays for an answer. Strains whatever the psychic equivalent of
an ear is.
Nothing.
Just the jagged whirling of her own thoughts.
She can’t help but be amused by the irony. She ran away from home
long ago because she was haunted by the fear of unseen powers that called
to her, and she found solace in the anonymity of the ocean. Distance muted
the voices. Every mile she sailed away from Guerdon was a balm to her
scarred soul.
Now, she’s terrified by the absence of one particular voice, and every
day she sails is time she can’t afford to spend. If she could have teleported
across the world, instead of spending months travelling around the
Godswar, she’d have done that, and damn the cost.
Nothing’s ever simple with you, is it, she thinks to herself. Again, there’s
no answer. Just a memory of her cousin Eladora, lying bleeding in an
alleyway off Desiderata Street, whispering to her: You ruin everything.
Not this time.
“Ilbarin!” comes the shout from the crow’s nest. “Mark, the Rock of
Ilbarin.”
Cari stares at the horizon, looking for the distant hump of the mountain,
but she can’t see it from down here yet. She suppresses the urge to climb up
into the rigging and get a proper view. She spent half her old life aloft, and
the swaying of the mast holds no fear for her. But she can’t abandon her
prize. She pats the heavy oilskin bundle that hasn’t left her sight in six
months, feels the comforting weight of the book inside.
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