Falconfar 01-Dark Lord by Ed Greenwood

Author:Ed Greenwood
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Falconfar

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"Put it down!" Taeauna snapped at Rod, eyes blazing. "Throw it down!"

He regarded her calmly, cradling the heavy thing in his palm as he thought. "No."

He put it in his laedre instead. "Its magic won't help us in fighting, or a siege, but is too useful to just throw away."

Taeauna gave Rod a sharp glare. "You know what'it does?"

"I do now."

"So you are a wizard," Deldragon said softly.

"No," Rod replied, meeting the velduke's ice-blue eyes steadily. "No, I'm not. If you held that horse-head, it would tell you what it does, too."

"Well?" Deldragon asked, holding out his hand.

"No," Rod told him. "Not now. If we survive the siege, yes, but it would be bad for you to touch the thing at this time."

Taeauna was still watching Rod intently. "It showed you something else, didn't it?"

"Yes."

"What?"

Rod looked at her, then nodded his head in Deldragon's direction, and looked a silent question at the Aumrarr.

"Tell us both," she replied quietly.

"1 saw the castle again."

"The castle? Which castle?" She frowned. "What other times have you seen this castle?"

"The castle I saw when the wand touched me. I'd never seen it before then. It's tall and black, and has a thin spire rising out of one corner."

Taeauna went a little pale, drew in her breath sharply, and then asked carefully, "A squared-off tower, with four turrets at its corners, three of them just bulges that rise no higher than the.battlements joining them, but the fourth a cylindrical tower that rises above the turrets for half again their height, then narrows to a smooth needle-pointed spire?"

Rod nodded.

The Aumrarr added grimly, "And this castle has no moat nor outbuildings, and stands in the heart of a green, growing forest. The trees close around it are dead and bare. Yes?"

Rod nodded again.

Stroking his flaxen mustache, Deldragon looked a silent question of his own at Taeauna.

"Yintaerghast," she whispered, in reply. "Lorontar."

Then it seemed to be the velduke's turn to shiver, go pale, and take a step back from Rod.

Amalrys stiffened suddenly, and then erupted into wild spasms, her chains clashing as well as chiming, her honey-blonde hair lashing the air as she jerked her head about, her hands like wriggling claws. Then she slumped over in her chair, head lolling and drooling.

Arlaghaun looked up in annoyance, brown eyes flashing, and closed his book with a sigh. Thoughtfully, he tapped his sharp nose for a moment, then cast a careful spell over his apprentice.

She neither moved nor spoke.

The gray-clad wizard shrugged. Good. No rival mind was infesting hers. Her will must have failed under the strain of fighting to command her scrying-probe through Deldragon's hired defenses.

Such things happened. Such would happen to her again, until enough practice strengthened her mind sufficiently.

Shaking his head, the greatest Doom of Falconfar went back to his book. He'd been working out a cleverly hidden message in a particularly fascinating passage...

Narmarkoun smiled slowly. "Always they forget about me. Arlaghaun the Arrogant-Beyond-Belief and Malraun the Matchless Dolt. Far too powerful to concern themselves

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