The Alpha Hunts the Exiles, So I Let Him Catch Me novel · Chapter 12 of 24
Chapter 12: Eleven Bells
The first bell had a flat, cracked note I would have known anywhere.
It was the Larrondo bell, and it had hung by the Larrondo door for two hundred years.
The wardens along the rim went still.
A second bell answered it from the far end of the bowl, higher, and then a third.
Then all of them at once.
Eleven bells rang up out of the dark, each in its own voice, and they did not stop.
I had asked my people to do this in a salt sack's worth of whispers.
I had not known what it would sound like.
It was the sound of a whole village coming home.
Lamps flared in the huts.
Doors opened.
People came out into the moonlight, old men and women, young men, girls with babies on their hips.
Every one of them held a bell in an upraised hand.
There were twenty-nine, and they stood in a loose half-ring at the foot of the slope and rang.
"That's my mother's," a warden beside me said.
He said it in a small voice, to nobody.
"That's the Camou bell. That's my mother's bell, I'd know it in my sleep, she's in America, she sailed, they told us she-"
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