The Last Sin Eater Page #4

to such as he, Brogan Kai.

I told you to stay off my mountain

or I kill you.

I should have done you in that first day.

Instead I showed you kindness

and you turn my own kin against me?

God made you upright, Kai,

but you have sought out many devices.

These are my people.

The ways of men are before the eyes

of the Lord and he watches all his paths.

Repent and be saved.

No, please. Please don't.

Please don't, please. Please, Pa, don't.

Don't, don't. Please.

No.

No.

No.

I warned you, didn't I?

You had it coming.

So much for the power of his god.

I hate you. I hate that I'm your son.

How dare you stand against me?

Your own flesh and blood.

No.

Who's out there?

This has got nothing to do with you,

you hear me?

You want me to go look, Pa?

No. Les go.

What about the outsider?

He ain't dead yet.

He will be by morning.

- You want I should carry Fagan?

- Leave him.

He'll come home with his tail

between his legs soon enough.

- He's bad hurt, Pa.

- I said leave him.

- Fagan.

- Is he dead, Cadi?

I'm so sorry, sir.

I'm so sorry they done this to you.

Cadi.

My pouch.

Take it.

Whas in it?

Truth.

Pass it on.

Is no use, Fagan. He's gone.

Oh, no. Please.

Katrina Anice!

You've got to get Fagan help.

Where? I can't bring him home.

Pa will just take him back to the Kai.

Bletsung Macleod.

Bring him back to Bletsung.

I didn't know where else to take him.

Oh, my goodness.

- Is this the work of Brogan Kai?

- Yes, ma'am.

Help me get him inside.

Is okay. Is okay. Is okay.

Cadi brought him here.

I don't know what made her do it.

Given what most people

in that cove think of me.

She's the only child

who's come near this cabin.

I'm glad you'll have company.

I...

I'll do what I can for them.

The boy is a brave one, going up against

his pa, trying to save that stranger.

Is he badly hurt?

If you could but see

what Brogan done to his own son.

Broke the poor chils ribs.

You would

make a good mother.

If I am not allowed to be your wife,

and to bear your children,

then I will bear no other man's.

Well, I best go.

That stranger will need a proper burial.

Can't you stay a while longer?

You don't have to say nothing.

It just does my soul good,

having you close.

I'm always close.

She loves him, Fagan.

She loves the Sin Eater.

It ain't our business.

Maybe not.

But you should have heard

the way he spoke to her.

So soft and sweet.

Pa used to talk to my ma that way

when I was little.

My pa ain't never talked

to my ma that way.

But I've seen her look at him, sometimes,

like the sun wouldn't rise without him.

I don't know how

that she can feel that way.

It ain't hard.

You can love somebody

without them loving you back.

Hello!

Is my mother.

Get down. Hurry! Hurry.

I'm leaving the door open

or she'll think something amiss.

- Katrina Anice, do you trust me?

- Yes. Now hush up. We have to be quiet.

lona Kai. You're a long way from home.

What would you be wanting

in my part of the cove?

Believe me,

this is the last place I'd wanna be.

But I'm looking for my boy, Fagan.

He's been talking

about Dead Man's Mountain.

Have you seen him?

And if I have, why would I be

telling the likes of you?

He's my son, not yours.

You'd understand

if you'd ever had children of your own.

You and the rest made sure

that would never happen, didn't you?

Gos doing, not mine.

But what was your doing

was turning the cove against me.

Spreading lies, calling me a spell-caster,

so your precious Brogan

would stop pining for me and marry you.

Well, you got what you wanted,

didn't you?

Where is my son, you witch? Where is he?

You don't deserve a boy like Fagan, lona.

A mother ought to protect her own son.

I'd stand against Hell itself

to protect Fagan and he ain't even mine.

So you do have him in there. Fagan?

Son, come out to your mama.

Please!

You don't have to go, Fagan.

Yes, I do. Let go, Cadi.

He's mending

from the beating Brogan gave him

because he stood up

for the man by the river.

A man of God. Didn't you know that?

Why do you think I come here?

His pa's been looking for him since dawn,

and I can't let him find him here.

Do you think I want my boy hurt again?

Hello, Ma.

Oh, Fagan. Oh, no.

Come, son, come.

How could your pa do this to you?

Is all right, Mama.

Katrina Anice, do you trust me?

Yes, I told you already.

Then you have to run, right now.

You and Fagan.

- He cannot come home.

- He can stay as long as he likes, lona.

Fagan, we've got to run.

Please, we've got to run. Right now.

- Why?

Fagan!

Run, Fagan. Go. Run.

Kai.

Kai, please let them go.

This is none of your affair,

Bletsung MacLeod.

Please, Brogan. He's your son.

Don't do this.

He's flesh of your flesh!

No! No!

No! Come on, Fagan.

I'm not going without you.

Where are you, boy?

You best show yourself. You hear me?

Fagan!

CADl:
Fagan? Fagan, wake up. Wake up.

Oh, God. Oh, God, help me. Please help us.

If you don't show yourself,

you are no longer my son.

I will never look upon you again.

You are dead to me. You hear me, boy?

I searched the entire cove for her.

And no one has seen hide nor hair of her.

Is been a night and a day.

God help me.

I even went to the Narrows.

Fagan?

Fagan?

Fagan!

Sin Eater, wait.

Where are you taking Fagan?

You and the boy

need to be out of the cold.

Follow me.

You two caused a lot of trouble,

Cadi Forbes.

Thank you for coming for us.

You lie down, now.

Try to get some more sleep.

Where are we?

The Sin Eater's cave.

- This is where he lives?

- Aye.

He grooms himself.

Where is he?

Gone before I woke up.

Bletsung's.

Is freezing.

What you doing?

- Fagan's cold, sir.

- You're not to touch my things.

If anyone were to find out you touched

my things, you'd be tainted like me.

No one's touched me in 20 years

and thas how it has to stay.

Step aside. Let me pass.

Is blankets from Bletsung.

Put one over him. I've not touched them.

Stranger's pouch is in there, as well.

She thought you might want to have it.

What about my father?

He won't come looking for you here.

But when you are well enough to travel,

the two of you must leave.

- Where will we go?

- Anywhere but here.

This cave holds dark sins.

Why did God cause the lot to fall to you

all those years ago?

It was Gos will that it fell to me.

- Maybe it wasn't Gos will.

- What you talking about?

- Can you read?

- Aye.

What is it?

Is the book the man of God gave to us

before he died.

Tells the story of another sin eater

that God sent long ago.

It says that only he can forgive us

of our sins.

- I will never read that book.

- Why not?

Because it would mean

I had wasted my life in this cave.

And never saved a single soul

from damnation.

Cadi!

CADl:
Hurry! Oh, please hurry!

Cadi, where are you?

I'm in the back of the cave.

Hurry, please hurry!

- Hurry!

- I'm coming.

Don't worry, I'm almost there.

What took you so long?

You ought to be thanking me

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