Chapter 14
ANTON WALKED around the coach and opened the door. He helped Johanna down the steps, with Li Fai following close behind. The wind had picked up and the grey clouds released the occasional spitting drops of rain.
“Wow.” Li Fai looked up at the house, long since abandoned by the Shepherd and his young family. The tree on the second floor had mangled the house. It had broken through the roof. Its branches spread over the house and part of the neighbours’ roofs. Roots as thick as a man’s thigh had come out the broken upstairs bedroom window and grown down the façade of the house, between the windows, down the side of the steps to the front door and forced open the door into the servants’ entry downstairs.
It was a type of tree Johanna was unfamiliar with and no one had ever seen
