A Bride and a Hero (11)

A Bride and a Hero (11)

  Six of them were tugging away at the stone, but they could not shift it, let alone lift it up into the cart that stood waiting nearby.

  Oisin stopped to help them and learned over to pick up the stone, but Oisin lost his balance.

  He reached out to stop himself falling and part stirrup broke. The hero tumbled off his horse and landed on the floor.

  Niamh's warning ran through his mind.
  As he picked himself up he knew they were true ; he was old, stiff, and blind.

  Niamh's horse trotted away, and Oisin realized that he would never return to Niamh.

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