The Flame Bearer (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 10) - Plot & Excerpts
The fires that smoked the fish flared up on the foreshore as my men fed them with driftwood, and by the light of the sudden flames they waded into the shallows and heaved armour and weapons into our ships. More fires showed on the hill above, surrounding the feast hall where I had imprisoned all of Ieremias’s men, women, and children. Seven of my guards watched the hall, while two others stood watch over Ieremias who had begged to be allowed to spend the night in his relic-filled cathedral. ‘I would pray, lord,’ he had pleaded, ‘I would pray for your success.’‘Pray!’ Finan scoffed. ‘You should have let me slit his god-damned throat.’‘He’s mad, not evil.’‘He’s cunning and sly, you said so yourself.’‘He believes in miracles,’ I said. Somehow Dagfinnr the Dane had heard about Christian miracles and had convinced himself that the nailed god would give him the power to work them if only he collected enough relics, and so Ieremias had been born. He blamed his failure to turn water into mulberry ale or to cure blindness on the sad fact that he had been denied ownership of Lindisfarena.
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