Dark Mist Rising by Anna Kendall

Author:Anna Kendall [Kendall, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780575094314
Amazon: 0575094311
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 2011-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Ten minutes went by. Fifteen, twenty. It was a long time to neither speak nor move, but no one did.

The servants standing closest to the massive doors must have heard it first. Their gazes turned towards the courtyard outside, and those furthest away turned their heads and took on the expressions of people listening hard. Then all of us could hear it. For me, the throne room took on the aspect of a dream, something between memory and fresh experience. For I had seen this all before, three years ago, and to see it again was to believe for a moment that I was again Roger the fool, the boy who understood nothing instead of the man who understood too much.

A boy singer entered first. He wore red dye on his face and twigs in his hair. He could have been the singer from three years ago – except that particular singer had become a man and a soldier, and a dog from the Country of the Dead had torn into his throat and ripped out his eye. But even this voice, powerful enough to reach to the high vaulted ceiling and echo off the stone walls, was the same.

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