(eng) Michelle Sagara - Elantra 06 by Cast in Chaos

Author:Cast in Chaos [Chaos, Cast in]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The return from the Halls was silent. The Consort did not speak a word as she led Kaylin from the caves and through the paths of the Inner Court to the marble and heights of the outer building. She didn’t speak a word to the men who brought her carriage round, either, and she entered it like a winter storm. Kaylin almost offered to walk, but that would have meant speaking.

But as the carriage pulled away, the Consort said quietly, “What the Oracles see is not a given. Were it, we would have perished any number of times. They tell a slanted tale, and if their listeners understand it well enough, they can prevent catastrophe. You know this,” she added, a cool accusation in the words.

It was true.

“You must therefore accept it, on some level. The risk,” she added. “It is not a risk that I, or my brothers, would accept.”

“I don’t see any way of changing it. We don’t understand what’s being done well enough—”

“You wouldn’t destroy the portal, or stop it from opening, if you could. Let us see what the Imperial Court says.”

“How much of the truth will you tell them?”

She was silent for a long moment. “All of it,” she finally said. “The Dragons cannot be more of a threat than the Devourer, and my kin understand the threat the Dragons pose. We have faced it for centuries.”

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