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Date Posted: Mon, February 06 2023, 13:02:46
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Monday, February 6, 2023

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2014. Chapter 116 A-Hunting We Will Go


The deer shuddered violently, shoving its antlers into his chest, bunched its legs convulsively as though about to make one final leap, and died.

He held it for a few moments, the shredded velvet still on the antlers like rough suede under his sweating palm, the weight of the coarse-haired shoulders growing heavy on his knee.

“Thank you,” he whispered, and let go. He remembered that it had been Mac the groom who’d told him that you always thanked a creature that gave you its life - and that it had been James Fraser, some years later, who had killed a huge wapiti in front of him and spoken what he said was a “gralloch prayer” in Gaelic before butchering the beast. But with deer’s blood on his skin and the breeze moving in the wood around him, for once he didn’t push those memories away.

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[> Mac the Groom was such a big influence on young Willie. I look forward to seeing their relationship develop further. I especially like the growing bond between him and Bree. -- DianaH, Mon, February 06 2023, 13:35:48


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[> [> I do, too. I think he likes having a sister. I think he's growing used to Jamie but John will always be Papa. -- kgp, Mon, February 06 2023, 15:33:55


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[> [> [> Me too, Bri will definitely break through that “British reserve.” -- Kathy in PA, Wed, February 08 2023, 7:40:45


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