Fallen Star by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

Author:Anne Elisabeth Stengl [Stengl, Anne Elisabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: adventure, magic, unicorn, goblin, warrior maiden
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE UNICORN’S PLEA

LITTLE ROSIE WEPT AS she ran. Her short legs could not carry her swiftly, and she stumbled and fell many times in her desperation. Tears coursed down the cracks and crevices of her rock-hard face, and she wiped them away ineffectually.

“Dad! Dad!” she cried.

Where was he? He was always near when she cried for him, no matter what happened! Always ready to pick her up and hold her close, whispering words of comfort in her ear.

But he had gone after Lilybean, leaving her alone . . . and then . . . oh, and then! She had disobeyed him. He’d told her to stay, and she’d wandered off. Would he punish her now for her disobedience? Would he leave her alone in this frightening forest?

“Dad!” she sobbed, and fell again.

Behind her, Darkness pursued. Darkness like the fear that stalked her in the middle of the night when she woke in her small bed and the shadows were so deep and dawn so far away. She may be young . . . she may be ignorant . . . but she understood, as all children understand, that fear of the Dark.

But Dad could drive that fear away. He was big and strong in her eyes. If she could only find him, find the shelter of his arms, he would hide her from that Dark, and she would be safe. Only she couldn’t find him. And the Wood was so big! And the Dark so close . . .

Rosie fell to her knees, weeping heavily. She could not find the strength or will to rise. She curled into a tiny ball, calling out for her old father in a voice too full of dread to be understood.

Thus did the unicorn find her.

It stepped out from among the tall trees, its eyes burning with emptiness where once song had resounded. The compulsion of slavery drove it like lashing whips. It must obey its Master . . . and its Master had told it to find this child. To bring it back.

The ground seemed to recoil beneath each footstep the unicorn made. The shadow it cast poisoned all that it touched, and the breath from its nostrils sickened the trees, the grasses, the moss, the very air.

It approached the girl, looming over her in a pulsing mass of power. Slowly it lowered its horn until the point almost touched her trembling back. And then it spoke:

Princess, will you kill me?

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