Berg, Carol - Rai-Kirah 02 by Berg Carol

Author:Berg, Carol [Berg, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-30T15:34:22+00:00

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I stumbled to my knees in gaping wonder, the frigid wind scraping my lungs and making me cough until a fine spray of blood reddened the snow. Wake up

. . . wake up . . . before it comes. Merryt was already disappearing into the gloom. “Please . . . help . . .” The wind snatched my voice away, and the man did not slow. Get up. Move. This is not the dream. My feet were unfeeling blocks of ice, but I got them under me and staggered forward. “Wait . . .”

Merryt turned just as I fell again, and he came and hauled me up, my arm across his shoulders. “Mustn’t leave you out here to freeze. Not until we see what you’re about, at least. Just a little farther.”

More than a little, but I didn’t care. I was not collapsed in the snow being devoured by the darkness.

We did not cross the bridge or enter the castle by its magnificent gates, guarded by towering forms of winged jackals, hacked from the ice. Rather Merryt took me a long way around, climbing up a jagged ice mountain to a back gate tucked inconspicuously between the castle wall and the frozen cliffs behind it. While he unlocked the gate, I stood shivering and gazing down onto the storm-wracked plain where I had lain so often in my dreams. From this vantage I could see the outline of a city in the distance, spires and roofs and towers sprawled across a small segment of the horizon. The city was dark, as if it were deserted, consumed by plague, perhaps, and waiting for the storm to bury it in winter. Just to the right of the city, stretching in a long arc to the base of the castle mount, was a sea of flickering lights. They put me in mind of a warrior encampment on the eve of battle. We’d just come from there, I believed.

“Come along. No one outside the castle is supposed to see us. That’s why we came the long way around.” Merryt held open the gate and waved his three-fingered hand for me to pass.

I took one last look at the bleak wilderness. He was out there waiting, the one in black and silver, the horror I had felt in my dreams, ready to devour what light remained in this dark place and in the world I had near forgotten.

Merryt gave me a push, and I stumbled into the castle.

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