Glimmer in the Maelstrom: Shadow Through Time 3 by Louise Cusack

Author:Louise Cusack [Louise Cusack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781743340158
Publisher: Momentum
Published: 2014-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

Firde found Lae on the floor in her bathroom, curled up behind a pile of towels. She was asleep but the maid could tell from her lady’s damp lashes and tightly clenched fists that she had cried herself to sleep. Again.

And what of the Guardian? Firde had discreetly searched her lady’s chambers and he was nowhere to be found. Had they quarrelled? Or worse, had her lady refused to see him?

‘Poor child,’ Firde whispered to herself; yet as she bent to lift Lae’s light body from the cold marble floor to return her to her bed, she acknowledged that her mistress was not a child. The Dark was a woman, with all the emotions a woman must bear, and many that no woman should have to.

Were they all born to suffer and die, not knowing a moment’s happiness? Without The Catalyst to intervene, the Maelstrom would eventually kill them all, though Firde knew those safe within the anchored castles would be the last to die. Yet The Dark did not acknowledge this and seemed unable to plan for their future, or even to address the people’s fears. Her only expression of duty was the ritual of the Altar Caves where, like her father before her, she recited the ancient words and then read the auras of those who attended. Less each day. For they all knew the past and now looked to receive guidance for the days ahead.

Alas, The Dark knew no future, though she spoke the word. Her lady had admitted her mind was locked in the past, into the horrible moment in time when her son had fallen into the Volcastle mouth. Like a scene with actors, it replayed over and over behind her eyes, each time accompanied by the same breath-stealing horror and heart-pounding shock. These repetitions wore her to threads, until at last lament and the release of tears would lull her to slumber, only to wake and begin the cycle anew.

‘Let him love you,’ Firde said as she slipped her mistress between the sheets of her overlarge bed. ‘The Guardian is your only hope.’

But Lae did not wake. Her exhaustion was complete.

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