The cold was a living thing in the Highlands, a wet, gnawing cold that seeped through wool and flesh to the marrow. But Claire Randall Fraser felt no cold. She felt only the coarse rope biting into her wrists and the hard, unyielding wood of the wagon rail against her back. The world lurched with every rut in the muddy road, each jolt a fresh agony in her bruised ribs.
Jamie closed his eyes. When he opened them again, the fury was gone. In its place was something raw and absolute. outlander s01e09 bdrip
And as the gates groaned open and the mist parted, Jamie Fraser led his wife out of the shadow of Castle Leoch and into the wild, uncertain dawn. Behind them, the clan watched in silence. Ahead, the road to Lallybroch wound through the heather like a silver ribbon—a path to home, to war, and to a reckoning far greater than either of them could yet imagine. The cold was a living thing in the
He smiled.