Anathema (The Eating Woods)

Anathema (The Eating Woods)

Author: Keri Lake Listening Length: 20h 13m
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From the author of Nocticadia comes a spellbinding gothic dark fantasy about a shunned woman who is forced beyond the mortal realms forbidden boundary, into a terrifying world of cursed souls and grotesque creatures. Only the banished know what lies beyond the woods There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell—t...

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN

MAEVYTH

“ A ll these leeks.” Aleysia groaned from beside me. “Better than two winters ago. Remember all we ate was gruel? Gruel for breakfast, gruel for supper. If I never eat a bowl of that slop again, it’ll be too soon. I feel nauseous just thinking about it,” she said, and not even her imitation gagging managed to sever the menagerie of thoughts pouring through my mind right then.

I stared off to the sound of my own quiet chopping, until a sharp sting struck the tip of my finger. “Ouch!” The wooden board where I’d been slicing potatoes for stew was speckled with bits of blood that dotted the white flesh of the vegetables.