Chapter Fourteen“What were you thinking, for the love of God?” Seonaid woke me with an ungentle shake and slapped me resoundingly across the face.
I stared at her. “What?” I lifted my hand defensively so she slapped the other side, harder than before. I stared, shocked; her blows were every bit as powerful as those of Aela, and hurt more because I liked her.
“This!” She brandished the Book under my nose. “What were you thinking to bring this rubbish here?” Before I could object she had hauled the plaid from my cringing body and poked me hard in the ribs. “Get up! Get up and explain yourself!”
I staggered up, “it's the Book of Black Earth…”
“I know exactly what it is, Fergus Scott!” Her next slap was aimed at my backside and I yelped at the unexpected sting. “I did not ask what it was:
