Nora roberts blood brothers book 111/28/2023 ![]() Here I will hold until you come for me, until you loose what must be loosed again on the world. With the athame, he scored his palm so his blood fell onto the stone, into the water, and into the flame. "For you now," he murmured, "sons of sons. So his body shook and sweat and weakened as light hovered in a halo around the stone. And now he poured power into it as one would pour water into a cup. He had treasured this stone, as had those who'd come before him. Its deep green was generously spotted with red. His voice was strong and clear as he called to wind and water, to earth and fire. In this last hour he would do all he could to provide them with what was needed to carry the burden, to remain true, to see their destiny. His legacy to them was in blood, in heart, in vision. To leave them what tools they would need, the weapons they would wield, he risked all he had, all he was. What power he had would be theirs, these sons, who would loose their first cries long, long after this night's work was done. And from them, when the time came, there would be three more. ![]() The three would be born from her, raised by her, and taught by her. But he had seen the grief on her face, in the deep, dark eyes he had loved through this lifetime, and all the others before. She had not wept, he thought now as he sprinkled the herbs he'd selected over water. He had sent Ann and the lives she carried in her womb away, to safety. So he waited as it pushed its way through the woods, its torch raised toward the empty sky, as it waded across the streams, around the thickets where small animals huddled in fear of the scent it bore with it. It came for him through the heat-smothered night. Through the snakes of fog that slid silent over the ground, its hate crept. IT CRAWLED ALONG THE AIR THAT HUNG HEAVY as wet wool over the glade. The first book in the Sign of Seven Trilogy series
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