The Spell of Rosette

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Author: Kim Falconer
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happen. She had premonitions.’
    ‘So do you, but…’
    Kalindi’s eyes welled up again as she stared into the fire. ‘But not this time.’
    Jarrod rubbed her back. ‘Dumarka then?’
    ‘I’ve got more than enough money to get there. I’ll go in the morning. Not from Lister Bay, though.’
    ‘Not from the hub of Lividica,’ Jarrod agreed, letting his hand rest on her shoulder. ‘You can’t risk being seen.’
    ‘I’ll hike south to Flureon. I can get a clipper from there. Then it’s only a week’s sail to Dumarka.’
    ‘I’m coming with you.’
    She faced him. ‘You can’t.’
    ‘I can and I will.’
    ‘Jarrod, listen. I have to go alone. If you disappear with me, it’s like sending out a message: Kalindi Matosh is still alive! ’
    ‘I’m not letting you go alone.’
    Her eyebrows went up. ‘ Letting? ’
    ‘I just meant…’
    ‘I know what you meant, but I have to slip away and you can never say where I’ve gone. You can never even say my name again. We can’t even think my name again. I have to change it. Kalindi Rose has to disappear, forever.’
    Jarrod turned her hand in his and lifted it up to kiss her knuckles. ‘What name will you take? I need to know that at least, so I can find you.’
    She shrugged her shoulders.
    ‘Rose?’ he suggested. ‘Your middle name is unknown to any outside your family and mine.’
    ‘Rose sounds like an old auntie.’
    He laughed. ‘I don’t think so.’
    ‘What about Rosette?’
    ‘Ro-sette.’ He said the name slowly, turning it into two distinct syllables. ‘That’s beautiful.’
    ‘It’s done then. I’m Rosette. Rosette…de Santo. That’s a common enough family name in these parts. And, Jarrod, we’ve never met. You don’t know me, and Kalindi Matosh is dead. If you think of me, even in your dreams, you must call me Rosette.’
    Jarrod buried his face in his hands. ‘I don’t want to be without you, Kalindi.’
    She stared at him, eyes narrowing until he looked up.
    ‘I mean—Rosette. I don’t want to be without you, Rosette.’
    ‘You have to. If they find me—if they think you know where I am—both of us are in danger. Can you see that?’
    ‘I can.’
    He kissed her, long, slow and deep. He reached under her wool sweater and cupped her breast.
    She stopped his hand. ‘Jarrod, there isn’t time. You’ve been out all day and, if you aren’t home soon, Liam will come looking for you with the dogs. He might be already searching, especially with wind of what’s happened. We can’t risk it.’
    ‘You wouldn’t trust Liam?’
    She shook her head. ‘Not with this.’
    ‘You certainly let him…’
    ‘Jarrod, stop. I’m not going to see you for a long time. Don’t end it with an argument about me and your brother.’
    Jarrod pulled his hand away from her warm skin and shook his head. ‘I don’t want to leave you.’
    ‘Me neither. Now go. Hurry.’
    He got up, shouldered his bow and stared up at the cliffs. ‘When will I see you again?’
    ‘I don’t know.’ She handed him his pack.
    ‘Keep it. There’s still bread for the morning and water. Rosette, I…’
    She stopped his words with a kiss, holding his face in her hands. ‘Don’t write to me. Don’t send any messages. It has to be like this. Promise?’
    ‘I promise.’ He buried his face in her hair. ‘I love you, Rosette de Santo.’
    ‘I love you too. Tell Liam…’
    ‘What?’
    ‘Tell Liam I’m dead.’
    They held each other until Jarrod turned abruptly and jogged away. He would have to take the long way around now that it was dark. She hoped he would get home before they sent out a search party. At the rate he disappeared down the beach, she felt sure he would.
    Rosette went back to the fire, tears welling again. She picked up a stick and jabbed the coals, making sparks dance like fireflies. What have you done, John’ra? What have you done to us all?
    Rosette’s relationship with her father had never been smooth. A tension had lain in
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