A Thousand Glass Flowers … opening chapters.
A Thousand Glass Flowers.
Prue Batten
© 2009
Chapter One
Lalita
Thumping woke her and the dog growled from her bed. The bar across the door rattled and underneath her fingers she could feel the hackles on the animal’s spine. ‘Hush, Phaeton,’ she whispered. ‘He can’t hurt me.’