Cold Grey Stones by Tanith Lee

Author:Tanith Lee [Lee, Tanith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NewCon Press
Published: 2012-01-26T06:00:00+00:00

Days and nights elapsed, and he saw to the business of his house and land, but thoughts of the war still came to him. Sometimes he had terrible dreams. But he spoke of neither, and pushed them from him.

War was an evil essential of the world, yet one more of the curses brought down on Man by his earliest disobedience. It must be endured, and where necessary embraced, never invited back, as some men did, like a friend of long-standing, to the hearth of his mind.

One. day, when he asked the old father how he did, the ancient man said sombrely, “I mourn for my son. He died in the war.” This surprised Calinnen slightly, for until then he had been unconvinced his father grasped the tragedy. But that night Calinnen dreamed it was his brother and not himself who had ridden home and, in tears, told the household that Calinnen had perished in battle. While in the woodland two days from the house, a witch in a green gown had warned men that Calinnen’s ghost was also on the road, mounted on a phantom horse, for neither of them knew that they had died.

Waking from this dream, Calinnen felt of his hands and arms and face. Getting up he examined his whole body, even staring at himself finally in his wife’s mirror of Eastern glass. “Am I much changed?” he said to her. She shook her head, but he saw in that moment she thought him older, and less strong.

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