Chapter 5
The House of PowerIt was only when they were well out of sight and reach of the Callanish Stones that Neil permitted Mairi to ride the white mare. She seemed to be resigned to following his lead and made no attempt to turn back. How different everything looked now from the way it had looked the first time he rode beside these glassy meres. It seemed as though a long time had passed and he looked back at himself then as though he had been a child. He had the same face, the same limbs — but his thoughts were not the thoughts of the same person.
When the sunlight was snuffed out by clouds and the air chilled, Mairi wrapped herself in the shawl Skena had sent with him. He rode up close to her and reached out his hand to help her tuck the shawl in firmly against the wind. His finger
