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A gust of wind parted the reeds Fury caught a glinised him as a particularly nasty individual He let the coracle drift The et in a shot and he'd be dead before he could do that A crossboas fired by pulling a trigger and it delivered an ar bolt At twenty paces Fury could hit a marsh hen At ten he could skewer a wren The distance shrank to five before thefriend' He drew his bow 'Look what I've '

He was still sneering when the bolt from Fury's crossbow struck him in the chest Fury watched the man sink to his knees His only concern was that he'd been too close If the bolt had passed right through the body, it would be lost He was relieved when thefro knife, rear with Miralda and the other coracle

'Did you get him?'

'Aye' Fury tapped the crossbow

'Is the way clear?'

'It is now '

He lashed the coracles together and clambered in beside Miralda The old woman rapped in war Alison sat in the other coracle with a paddle Fury checked that everything was secure and pushed off from the bank

Dark clouds swirled overhead Three days had passed since they left the ed for the worse They were caed rocks and storm petrels flew overhead There were far better places to spend the night but none as safe Sheer cliffs protected the sea on the other No one could reach the current had carried them down the estuary and they faced the full force of waves sweeping in froress as theythe coast Some of the tribes were at ith his mother's people When they passed their territory he was on his guard

They were in such a situation now An island had appeared on the horizon Miralda said it was their destination and they should go ashore andthe next day The safest place was a rocky headland where the seals sought refuge

There were several hundred of the lu for the females to arrive The older occupied the best spots and the younger were scattered around on narrow ledges and isolated boulders Fury felt an affinity with the young seals