Beyond Night
He breathed deep once, then several times shallow.
“Just a dream,” the words fell out, but louder than he planned when his mouth opened. Though a warm summer morning, chills tremored across his body. “But Froiz rode out with the scouts, didn’t he? Damn.” He thought of the men that went north the previous day to scout, and wondered why he’d dreamed such a wild thing. To fear those priests of the oaks—yes, that came naturally after what they’d all seen of the Celts in the south and heard yarns about for ages. Often, he and others spotted the ones they named Druids in the forests, watching and holding branches, staring . . . and seeming to disappear back into the green. August didn’t think it m
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