Ghostlight by Bradley Marion Zimmer

Author:Bradley, Marion Zimmer [Bradley, Marion Zimmer]
Format: epub

looked puzzled, as if there were something he wanted to grasp but could

not; Hereward seemed aloofly intense.

But Irene looked worried rather than interested, and Fiona was clearly

more interested in looking well than in anything anyone else had to say.

"As you know, we have been unable to re-create the material lost with

the disappearance of Venus Afflicted. Despite this, we will be moving

forward with the Blackburn Work. We will open the Gate on All Hallows'

Eve, two weeks from tonight. This will be a full working, with all Initiates

robed and sealed as to their Grades. I realize that we are under-strength,

so that some of you will have doubled roles, but I think we can make it

work. Now..."

It was bizarre, really, how Julian managed to make it all sound like an

RAF briefing in an old WWII movie. Truth tried not to smile as she

reached for her wineglass. All this work and all this fuss; this wasn't what

magick was ....

"Julian, you can't be serious!"

Irene Avalon stood, facing Julian down the length of the table. The

garish makeup she wore tonight made her look cruelly older, and the

light from the chandeliers glittered off her earrings as she trembled with

agitation.

"You know that Thorne meant that ritual to be done at Beltaine--at

the rising tide, not the falling one!"

"And so that was when he tried it--but did it work?" Julian asked

rhetorically. "No. It did not work. It failed because not enough power

was available in the rising tide, which is why I propose to use the falling

tide instead."

"The falling tide; the qlipothic energies... It might work," Donner

said slowly.

"Oh, dearie me, yes--and if a cow had an engine she'd be a Volks-

wagen,'' Ellis said waspishly. "Julian, I've been involved in the Work for

more than twenty years. A little reconstruction is one thing--"

"Look--you don't know anything better!" Gareth told Ellis, rising a

little out of his chair.

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