(GoG Book 11) To Be A King by Kathryn Lasky

Author:Kathryn Lasky [Lasky, Kathryn]
Language: abk
Format: epub
Tags: Children's Books
ISBN: 9780545283427
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2010-11-14T22:04:17+00:00

The smee chant swirled in Kreeth’s head as she flew out of the Ice Narrows. She must find a feather from the family of Emerilla. The most likely choice would be Emerilla’s father, who had been killed in a battle over the Ice Dagger. She must find the hagsfiend who went off with his head. There was a covey of hagsfiends that lived near the Ice Talons, and one in particular by the name of Penryck interested her. He was a skillful fighter. She had heard that he had thrown in his lot with Lord Arrin. But Lord Arrin was not faring well these days and Penryck was not one to fly about with losers. She turned east and flew up a twisting channel that penetrated deep into the cliff where it was said there was another ice palace of the old king’s, the palace of the Ice Cliffs. Very difficult to find and not nearly as elaborate and grand as the H’rathghar glacier palace, it was said to be deep within an impenetrable maze of ice canyons.

But the Ice Cliffs themselves were riddled with the hollows of hagsfiends. It was a very safe place because the water remained frozen in the channels for most of the year. It was pure daring of King H’rath to have a hideaway so close to hagsfiends. Kreeth had to credit the king and queen for their audacity. But it was also true that most hagsfiends were not extraordinarily bright. It would have been a challenge for them to navigate through the tangled maze of ice channels and canyons. Kreeth, of course, counted herself an exception to this rule.

A hagsfiend now flew in her wake and swooped in beside Kreeth as the narrow channel widened and deepened into a canyon.

“What brings you here, Kreeth?”

“I seek Penryck. He fought in the Battle of the Ice Talons, did he not?”

“Yes, as did I.”

Kreeth looked at the hagsfiend but she could not remember her name. “There was an old lieutenant, a Spotted Owl.”

“Oh, Strix Hurthwel.”

“Who killed him?”

“A hagsfiend named Mycroft.”

“And where might this hagsfiend be found?”

“In the Ice Narrows.”

“What?” Kreeth staggered in flight. “No hagsfiends live in the Narrows except for me.”

“He indeed does.”

“Don’t you ‘indeed’ me! You, you…” She wheeled around on her port wing and headed back to the Ice Narrows.

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