Here is an early, unedited look at part 21 of the Wolf Head Series.
Tachi hangs her head, recaptured, found out, once again a slave. Distracted, she lets the furious ramblings go unanswered, Daniel’s charges, thus unmet, growing to outstrip his earlier mumbling accusations with which he assaulted the wearied audience of his local haunts. Holding the now discovered runaway, the pig-wanting pig farmer’s acquaintances find a cure for their deafness of late toward this bore.
Not uninterested—his pity awakened toward the stranger—the old priest stands, walking some halfways toward the commotion so not to join and yet be part. Tarrying there, he watches the busy crowd, missing, as all did, the form circling the throng. As if from a distance, Tachi hears a hollow, almost toll-like, ring. Around her, the crowd stills.
Slicing through the silence, the shepherd’s voice calls, “Let her go.”
Raising her head, Tachi sees the collapsed accuser lying face first in the dust, her shepherd standing over him pointing the bloody end of his staff at the mob. He had thrown back his cowl, and it hung about his neck like an oversized scarf obscuring the lower half of his face. But over it, the eyes, the dark eyes like knives, hold all the rage and fury of a storm.
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Wolf Head
Part 1: The Job
Part 2: Foreboding
Part 3: Aftermath
Part 4: Into the Night
Part 5: The Struggle
Part 6: Expelled
Part 7: Out From the Bones
Part 8: Respite
Part 9: Sunset
Part 10: Transformation
Part 11: The Shepherd
Part 12: The Party
Part 13: The Wolf
Part 14: Partners
Part 15: Foreshadows
Part 16: Freedom
Part 17: Eavesdropping
Part 18: Resolve
Part 19: Men and Boys
Part 20: Caught
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