![]() ![]() Joan snorted a bit at sight of her new stepfather, but then thought better and touched the crucifix again, muttering a quick Act of Contrition in penance. Her mother was growing smaller on the quay, waving madly herself, Joey behind her with his arm round her waist to keep her from falling into the water. She pulled her kerchief off and waved it, keeping a tight grip lest the wind make off with it. And it was her mother she wanted to see, as long as ever she could. ![]() Ninian’s Spring and dipped it in the water there, to ask the saint’s protection. It was blessed by the priest and her mother’d carried it all the way to St. She touched her crucifix for reassurance, just in case. Michael’s was just a fairly pleasant face, for all it was blotched with windburn and the lingering marks of sorrow, and no wonder, him having just lost his father, and his wife dead in France no more than a month before thatīut she wasn’t braving this gale in order to watch Michael Murray, even if he might burst into tears or turn into Auld Horny on the spot. His younger brother Ian wasn’t so fortunate, and that without the heathen tattoos. Lucky for him, he looked like his mother in the face, she thought critically. You might expect his face to be ugly as sin if he was one of the Devil’s, though, and it wasn’t. The wind on deck was fierce enough to make her eyes water, and it jerked bits of Michael Murray’s hair out of its binding so they did dance round his head like flames, a bit. Joan eyed her escort’s fiery locks consideringly. They did say that red hair was a sign of the Devil. ![]() We last saw Joan embarked for France, under Michael’s protection, there to take up her vocation as a nun. (No pub date available yet.) This one deals with Michael Murray–second son of Ian and Jenny, Young Ian’s next-elder brother–and with Joan McKimmie, Laoghaire’s second daughter and Marsali’s younger sister. “The Space Between” is either a long short story or a novella (probably the latter), intended for an anthology titled THE MAD SCIENTIST’S GUIDE TO WORLD DOMINATION, edited by John Joseph Adams. ![]()
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