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“I did,” he said, and began to cry, shaking with silent, tearing sobs.
“No. I willna let go, Jamie. Bide. Just…bide.”
“Castle Dhuni’s the dwelling place of the chieftain of the Frasers of Lovat. Caisteal Dhuin is what ye call it in the Gàidhlig—that’s our own tongue.”
“Our clan motto’s in French, though,” Jamie said, with a small air of pride. “Je suis prêt.”
It meant “I am ready”
Ye’ll not see us, but we’ll be here nonetheless and thinking of you. Look up at night, and see the stars, and ken we see them, too.”
This wouldn’t stop, but he’d have to go on living anyway.
But he found the wall of prayer a barricade between himself and the wicked sly thoughts and, closing his eyes briefly, felt his father walk beside him and Brian Fraser’s last kiss soft as the wind on his cheek.
“Well, what if I was a Jew?” he demanded. “Why should it matter?
The medicine—it gives men strange dreams.”
His friend lay rigid as one of the tomb figures in the crypt at Saint Denis,
“I’d only go to hell if it was a mortal sin,” he said. “If it’s no but venial, I’d only have to spend a thousand years or so in purgatory. That wouldna be so bad.”
When he was five years old, Ian’s da, Auld John, had persuaded his own da to let Jamie handle a sword cack-handed, as he was wont to do. “And you, lad,” he’d said to Ian, very serious, “it’s your duty to stand on your laird’s right hand and guard his weak side.”
“It’ll bide,” Ian said, with a shrug. “If ye’re goin’ to hell, I might as well go, too. God knows, ye’ll never manage alone.”
“It means ‘peace,’ ” Jamie said at last. “What he said to me. The doctor. ‘Shalom.’
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