Prophecy of Gods and Crows by C.D. Britt EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Bryndis Kenneally had just slipped between the cool sheets of her bed as
night relinquished its hold on the small desert town. The sun was just
beginning its trek across the sky as it broke over the horizon, but the
familiarity of another day ended when the warning horns rang instead of the
typical church bells that announced the beginning of morning service.
The only reason for the city guards to sound the horns was one that made
her heart pound as her skin grew clammy. Running to her window, she
tripped over her bed sheet, catching herself on the sill and earning a splinter
in her palm for it. Her concern was not about the small pain, but about what
was happening on a much larger scale down on the street below. Something
that rarely happened in their small town, and the last time it had, she’d lost
her entire world.
The stifling heat radiating from her window did nothing to stop the chills
moving along her skin as she took in what the horns meant.
The gate was opening.
Looking through the dirty window, sand having accumulated along the
panes, she watched as the last true member of her family, her cousin Jace,
stepped out of the church doors.
Just as her father had done ten years ago.
Her mind moving back and forth between two very different times in her
life, she watched Jace, the town doctor, donning the same gear her father
had to make the same trek.
The exact same type of mask her father had worn ten years ago on his final
journey past the gate slipped over a different face. In a tribute to their god,
the leather bull mask was adorned with brass horns that glinted in the sun
and one glass eye blacked out in tribute.
That same mask now covered the face of the man who was the last of her
family.
Her throat tightened as the same brown hood went up over his blond hair,
taking all that identified Jace from the rest away as he became a symbol of
the end of Bryn’s world.
Identical to what her father had once worn and died in.
The town scrios, the leader of the Church of Baleros, stepped up next to her
cousin and nodded as he affixed his own mask, before pulling the hood of
his brown cloak up to cover his salt-and-pepper hair.
The two vastly different-looking men were now indistinguishable from each
other after having donned the religious regalia.
Uniformity was the town’s unofficial motto.
The town religion forbade anyone or anything to stand out, which was why
their entire world was painted in the dullness of brown and gray. To be
different in their community could very well get someone killed should the
town decide a person was acting or standing out at the behest of a demon or
witch.
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