Dark Warrior Rising by Ed Greenwood

Author:Ed Greenwood
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2011-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

To me, center of my power. Come to me. Taerune bit down on the gag savagely, willing her Orb to answer her. Respond, by Olone! Some of the oldest crones, their wills tempered over lifetimes, were reputed to be able to call their Orbs swooping to their fingertips across half Talonnorn, or send their Orbs flying off to do their bidding, even to spitting forth spells when they were nowhere near.

Yet when she wasn’t touching her Orb, Taerune had never been able to do more than make it change hue, glow or cease glowing, or flash with a sudden flare of light—and then only when she was within easy reach of it. Glaring now at where she knew it to be, gathering her will with such fierce force that her head began to pound and sweat started to run into her eyes and drip from her nose, she felt … nothing. Nothing at all from her Orb. Again and again she thrust out her will, reaching, probing.

Without result, until she collapsed, exhausted, and rested her chin on the rough rock, trying not to weep around the rough gag.

She was—had been—a spoilt lady pureblood, not a priestess or crone blood-offered to Olone, which meant her Orb stored a handful of spells, and with them gone it was no more than a toy and not a formidable weapon. She should have let Orivon plunder a spellblade. Yet not Uncle Faunhorn’s, or Valarn’s, or any Evendoom blade, for those they could trace with ease.

If they ever got a chance to pluck a blade belonging to another House, though …

Let her Dark Warrior wield it and strut with it—and see if she and her Orb couldn’t quietly assume command over it, while he did so.

The gag prevented her from smiling, but she no longer felt like crying.

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