The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle (The Vampire Chronicles) - Plot & Excerpts
I could hear the creak of the boards, smell the sea. I could smell the blood of those who manned the ship. And I knew that it was a galley because I could hear the rhythm of the oars under the low rumbling of the giant canvas sails. I couldn’t open my eyes, couldn’t make my limbs move. Yet I was calm. I didn’t thirst. In fact, I experienced an extraordinary sense of peace. My body was warm as if I had only just fed, and it was pleasant to lie there, to dream waking dreams on the gentle undulation of the sea. Then my mind began to clear. I knew that we were slipping very fast through rather still waters. And that the sun had just gone down. The early evening sky was darkening, the wind was dying away. And the sound of the oars dipping and rising was as soothing as it was clear. My eyes were now open. I was no longer in the coffin. I had just come out of the rear cabin of the long vessel and I was standing on the deck. I breathed the fresh salt air and I saw the lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky and the multitude of brilliant stars overhead.
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