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Chapter 81: The Memory That Wasn't Mine

The mind-link opened again on the shore road and this time I did not fight it.It came through like a tide coming in over the slip and it was not Declan and it was not me and it was my sister. It was my sister in the north in a cottage with a fire and a woman with grey hair across the table from her and a map between them, and the woman was saying, "The claim is mine. I have been in the north for twenty years and I have a pack and a record and a claim and you are a woman with a broken mark." And my sister was saying, "Then take it. Take the claim and the pack and the record and the north and the whole of it. I am going to Athlone." And the woman with grey hair was saying, "You are not going to Athlone. You are going to the coast and you are going to be the woman who came back from the water and you are going to stand in that hall and make the claim in front of the co-op and I am going to be behind you." And my sister was saying, "I am not going to be a thing you put in a hall." And th

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Chapter 82: The Second Bloodline

I stood in the fog on the shore road with the old woman's hand on my arm and the whole of it turning over.“Then my sister is on that headland now,” I said. “And she is going to fight.”“She is on that headland now and she is going to fight and she has been in the north for four months and she has a pack at her back and she has a broken mark and she has nothing left to lose.” The old woman's blue eyes were steady. “And there is a thing about your sister that you do not know and that I am going to tell you now because there is no time. She came to me in the room above the hall this morning and she sat on the bed and she told me the whole of it. She said, Aunt, I have a child. I said, I know, and she said, no, you do not know. She said, the child I gave to Deirdre in 1976 was a boy and he is in Killybegs and he is called Daniel. And there is a second child.” The old woman put her hand on my arm. “She said, in 1979 I had a daughter and the Alpha took her out of this village and gave her

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Chapter 83: The Book in the Boathouse

I did not answer her. I turned round on the track and went back down it with Declan behind me and the whole co-op watching and the moon coming through the fog.“Where are you going?” Mairéad called. “The moon is up. The fight is now.”“The fight can wait,” I said. “There is a thing in the boathouse that I have to see first.”I went down the track and along the shore road to the burned shell of the boathouse and I went in through the gap in the seaward wall with a lamp and Declan behind me and the whole co-op coming after us in a crowd.The floor was swept and the ashes were gone and the flagstones were bare. I went to the corner by the seaward door and lifted the iron ring and pulled the flagstone up and there was the well with the water in it and there was nothing else.“It is not here,” Declan said.“It is not in the well.” I put the lamp down on the stones. “There is a thing about this boathouse that I have been looking at since the first night and that I have not seen. The stones

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Chapter 84: What My Mother Left

I sat in the cellar under the boathouse with the black book in my hands and the whole co-op standing in the burned shell above me with lamps and the fog coming in through the gap in the wall.There was a second book under the first. It was smaller and it was bound in brown leather and it had a clasp on it and it had been in the chest in the corner with a bundle of papers tied with string. It had no title on the cover and no name on the first page.The first page said: “For my daughters. If you are reading this then I am not there to tell you and I am sorry. Your mother, Maeve’s daughter, Siobhan.”I sat in the cellar with the book in my hands and could not turn the page.“Whose hand is it?” Declan said.“It is my mother’s hand.” I turned the page. “It is my mother’s hand and she wrote it for me and for my sister and she left it in this cellar under a boathouse and she did not leave it in the cottage on the hill.”I read it aloud. The whole co-op heard it because the whole co-op was st

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Chapter 85: The Enforcer's Second Face

I came up out of the cellar with the black book and the brown book and the bundle of papers and the whole co-op stood back from me on the floor of the burned boathouse.Ahern was at the front. He had come down from the hall with his case and his lamp and his face was grey.“Say it again,” he said. “The heir. Say the name again.”“Mary Flannery of Killybegs. She is forty one years old and she was taken out of this village in 1979 and given to the Flannerys and she is the heir of Maeve and she is the next of the blood after my sister.” I put the books on a stone. “And there is a thing about the deed that my mother wrote down and that you are going to hear because you are the son of the man who signed it. The deed of gift does not say the shore returns to the co-op if the pack is taken. It says the shore is his for ever. It is not a lease. It is a gift in perpetuity to Ahern and his heirs and his successors in the office of enforcer.”Ahern stood in the burned boathouse with the lamp in

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Chapter 86: The Cooper and the Council

Arthur was sitting on a stone at the back of the boathouse with his stick across his knees and his old face grey in the lamplight, and when I said his name he did not look up.“Arthur,” I said. “You have been the cooper of this co-op for sixty years and you have kept the minutes and you have kept the records and you have been at every meeting since 1949. And there is a thing about the Council that I have to ask you and I am going to ask it now in front of the whole co-op and you are going to answer it.” I crouched down in front of him. “The Council has been taking money out of this co-op for thirty six years. Not the rent. The rent was the Alpha’s and the enforcer’s and it went to Ahern and to Korkut. The Council is a different thing. The Council is in Galway and it has a Keeper and a Rolls and a file. And there is a thing in the co-op’s books that has been going out of this village every year since 1961 and that is not the rent and that is not the catch and that is not the co-op’s du

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Chapter 87: The Knife in the Rope

The boat came alongside the pier and the men on it were the Kelleher men out of Sligo and there were four of them and one of them had a long case on his shoulder and one of them had a lamp and one of them had a knife in his belt.The co-op came down the shore road to the pier and stood in a line along it and the whole of it was in front of them. The Kelleher men looked at forty wolves in a line with lamps and did not get off the boat.“We are not here to make trouble,” the man with the case said. “We are here to be paid. We have been paid for a job tonight and the job is not a thing we are going to do in front of forty wolves. We were told to come in at nine and wait at the pier and go up to the hall when the moon was high and there would be a wolf at the door with a paper and a purse.”“Who told you?” I said.“The Alpha. The woman with the silver hair. She sent a man down the coast in a boat last week with a paper and a purse and the paper said the fourth of July and the pier at nine

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Chapter 88: The Spark and the Shore

I stood in the wreck of my sister's kitchen with the note in my hand and the whole co-op in the lane outside and Declan in the doorway.“The ring is not the only thing of hers that came back,” I read again. “Ask the woman in the north what she did with the child.”“That is not from Kern,” Declan said. “Kern does not know about a child. There is not a wolf in Galway who knows about a child.” He came into the kitchen and stood in front of me. “That note was written by a wolf in this village who knows about the daughter and who knows about the son and who knows that your sister is on that headland tonight. And there is only one wolf in this village who knows all of it and who is not on that headland and who is not in that lane.”“Maire,” I said.“Maire.”I went out of the cottage and along the shore road to the house with the grey plait and the door was open and the fire was out and the chair by the fire was empty and the photograph on the table was gone.And on the table there was a pag

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Chapter 89: The Night He Chose Me

I stood on the headland with the whole co-op around me and the moon high and the sea below and the whole of it in my hands.“Send the boy,” Mairéad said again. “The boy knows the coast and the boy knows the families in the north and the boy is the only wolf in this village who can go up that hill in Killybegs at four in the morning and be believed. And you stay here and you stand in that hall in the morning with the book and the ring and the whole of it.”“Cormac is not going to Killybegs,” Declan said.The whole headland turned round.“He is my son and he is twenty two years old and he has been used by a woman since he was fourteen and he is not going to be put on a boat in the dark and sent up a coast he does not know to bring back an heir he has never met.” Declan’s voice was flat. “Daniel Flannery can go. He knows the coast and he knows the family and he knows the woman. He is the brother of the heir and he is the one who has been hiding her since 1978.”“Daniel Flannery does not

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Chapter 90: The Silence After the Truth

I went down to the cottage and sat in the wreck of the kitchen with the table on its side and the plates in pieces on the flagstones and the hearth open and the hollow empty.I did not light the lamp. I sat on the floor with my back against the dresser and the moon came in through the window and made a white square on the flagstones and I sat in it and did not move.My sister was not my sister. The woman on the headland in the grey coat was a wolf from the north who had been paid to wear a gold head and stand in a hall and make a claim in a name that was not hers. And my sister was in the north and had been in the north since April and she had been in a pack of banished wolves and she had been a thing that Eileen put in a hall. And there was a daughter. There was a daughter called Mary who was in Killybegs and who was a fisherman's wife and who did not know what she was and who was the heir of Maeve.And Declan had chosen his son.I sat in the wreck of the kitchen and went through it

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