by J. C. Hendee
“In a moment,” she answered.
Grim went off, and Kyne hurt too much to even cry. One more thing was clear after the way the pup reacted to everyone here. If he was too young to have come from Shade’s land, and if he didn’t act like this was his home, then…
“You will never speak of it,” Domin Ginjeriè warned. “Not even to me, until—if—I say so. Now you know what can happen if the wrong people learn… certain things… considering what happened to him.”
Kyne shut her mouth tight, not daring to say what she thought… what she knew. She glanced at the domin, who stood looking across the plain.
Domin Ginjeriè’s gaze swung northward, and then eastward, back to the trees and then southward. And the suspicion and worry multiplied upon her beautiful face. Kyne didn’t have to ask what not left the kindly domin at a loss.
The pup had not returned home, and for the way he had acted…
Somewhere on this side of the world were other majay-hì, elsewhere.
Kyne ached so much that she didn’t feel the shock or excitement of such a secret. Domin Ginjeriè might have known from her first night with the pup below the Shyldfälches barracks. How the domin knew was another puzzle for later, if and when Kyne dared to asked. How the wolf-catcher learned of the pup’s people, wherever they were, was likely something more that no one might ever get out of him.
For many moons after meeting Wynn Hygeorht, Kyne had thought she knew exactly what she would be one day. That was years away, at best. But maybe now a robe of gray was not what she needed as she again looked at Domin Ginjeriè in her short travel version of a dusty sienna robe.
“Come along,” the domin said too quietly, and she turned away toward the wagon.
Kyne still stood there.
Everything changed, nothing remained the same, and at times one didn’t know so until it happened. But sometimes one knew a change that was coming.
As Kyne stared across the empty plain of grass towards the immense trees, she knew that one day she would search for those other majay-hì. Even before that, and at any cost, would come another change of her own making.
No matter the years that passed, Kyne would first find… Gnasher.
OTHER WORKS
About “Pending” Works:
This indicator within brackets is only used for works confirmed for release within six months following the release of this text. Where a more specific schedule has been set, this is usually mentioned instead.
The Noble Dead Saga
by Barb & J.C. Hendee
Series/Phase 1
Dhampir
Thief of Lives
Sister of the Dead
Traitor to the Blood
Rebel Fay
Child of a Dead God
Series/Phase 2
In Shade and Shadow
Through Stone and Sea
Of Truth and Beasts
Series/Phase 3
Between Their Worlds
The Dog in the Dark
A Wind in the Night [1/2014]
[…and more to come.]
T·N·D·S
Tales from the world of
the Noble Dead Saga
by Barb and/or J.C. Hendee
“Homeward”
The Game Piece
The Feral Path
The Sapphire
The Keepers
The Reluctant Guardian
Captives
Claws
“Bones of the Earth”
Karras the Kitten
Karras the Cat
“Tales of Misbelief”
The Forgotten Lord
“Sagecraft”
Puppy Love
The Mist-Torn Witches Series
by Barb Hendee
The Mist-Torn Witches
Witches in Red [5/2014]
The Vampire Memories Series
by Barb Hendee
Blood Memories
Hunting Memories
Memories of Envy
In Memories We Fear
Ghosts of Memories
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Foreword
Puppy Love
Other Works
The Noble Dead Saga
TNDS
The Mist-Torn Witches Series
The Vampire Memories Series
