Chapter 47
Nicole brought Dallmin back splattered head to foot with mud. It was a relief to see him smiling again. Like me, he’d been on an emotional roller coaster from the moment he’d set foot on this side of the Boundary. I wanted to send him home, but he wouldn’t even talk about it now. He told me to wait until after the baby was born. I couldn’t work out if that was because a birth was such a rare and precious event for him that he refused to miss it, or because he thought something might go wrong with it. It was a real and frightening possibility that shadowed us all like a dark roiling hail cloud that no one was willing to talk about.
‘You’re not coming in like that, Dallmin. You either, Nic. You’ll get mud over everything,’ Aunt Lily complained, blocking the doorway to the kitche
