Camelot Burning by Kathryn Rose

Author:Kathryn Rose
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: teen, teenlit, teen novel, teen fiction, young adult, young adult fiction, teen fiction, young adult novel, ya, ya novel, ya fiction, steampunk, arthur, king arthur
Publisher: Flux is an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.
Published: 2014-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

“My contact from Jerusalem is trustworthy. Pelles did not hear about Morgan escaping alive, that much is true. For now, he’s all right, along with the rest of Corbenic’s citizens, but all are under Morgan’s control. The witch knows Arthur left Camelot to follow her, as I expected, though I can’t shake this new suspicion that she might have a spy on the inside who confirmed the king abandoned his post, resulting in this ambush. Perhaps someone whose original purpose was to seek Avalon’s coordinates. I could be wrong. Regardless, Arthur’s attempt at peace will certainly fail. And Morgan will return sooner than we thought, Lancelot, I assure you.”

Merlin paces in front of Lancelot and Guinevere. Though their faces are wrought with panic, I have to imagine they’d be more upset if they knew they now stand in front of a fading sorcerer—never mind that he was fighting alongside the knights one hour past. Merlin hasn’t told them everything, and clearly things are worse than he originally thought if it was enough to risk leaving the tower for the second time today. His scarlet cloak binds tightly around his shoulders, falling to the floor. The gentle clicks of his cane and skeleton feet—“Those boots were damn uncomfortable anyway”—are audible, but the tension in the room is louder. He inhales a pinch of snuff with no attempt at discretion.

Guinevere takes my hand. “The gates,” she says.

“They’ve cleared away everything,” I whisper. “And the gates should be reinforced in a day’s time.”

She relaxes wearing a look of bitter relief, and it’s impossible to feel anything more than that. Stephen rests in the infirmary and should be all right, but others weren’t so lucky. To prevent further panic, all of Camelot has been told it was a band of rogue soldiers whose poorly executed plan to seize Excalibur went horribly wrong. According to my father, Camelot doesn’t need to know about the threat of le Fay just yet. It’s dumb luck no one else recognized the blue of Pelles’s flag.

“Does this Azur also think there’s a spy in our midst?” Lancelot asks, his scruffy chin caught between his thumb and forefinger. He’s forgotten his rift with Merlin, or is too overwhelmed by recent events.

“Well, if you need further evidence, Morgan left Camelot too easily, come to think of it. As though there wasn’t much for her to lose in abandoning her plan that day,” Merlin remarks.

“She left because all of us pointed our fusionahs at her without hesitation, only awaiting Arthur’s command,” Lancelot reponds.

Merlin strides toward the outspoken knight with tried patience. “A command he wouldn’t give, and she knew it as we did, Lancelot. Even if I’m wrong, you cannot afford to let a suspicion like that go ignored.”

Lancelot firms his lips into a tight line. “So what will I have to fight when the witch returns?”

Merlin thinks about the question. “You got a taste of it today: a legion of soldiers similar to those who first arrived with the witch, possessed by Telum Paret as Azur confirmed.

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