Chapter Thirty-Two
REUBEN’S GRANDAUGHTERPhoenix couldn’t tell if the rain disturbed her or the strange sensation which assailed her right cheek. Her trembling hand contacted something solid. Her words sounded slurred. “Mama!” she called, confident of Hana’s ability to explain the horse sharing her pillow. “Mama!”
She groaned against the haze of warm breath which covered her face and showered her in tiny beads of lung vapour. The ground vibrated with the impatient pawing of Mikaere’s front hooves. Phoenix’s head ached, sending out an arc of pain which encompassed her neck and shoulders. She raised her left hand to her head and her fingers coasted over a painful, raised bump. It joined with the injury from her beach fall to create a crown of pain.
Mikaere snorted again and Phoenix release
