Something Red Quotes

“There is nothing,” she said, and then, still looking away into the woods, reached sideways and took Ernald's arm firmly, “but be said by me, there was something hunting along our trail not a sennight since, and should it come here, see you and yours are within the gates.” She shook him gently. “Do not be slighting it, Ernald, great strong lad that you are and brave as a bear: it is something terrible, that no one should run to meet.”
― Douglas Nicholas, Something Red

“Oh, Mistress!" Hob cried; he found that he was panting as though he had been running up a hill. "Then we are, we are trapped in this castle! With, with that thing!"

Molly's head came up.

"Nay, she said. "It is trapped in this castle with me.”
― Douglas Nicholas, Something Red