Greendaughter (Book 6) by Anne Logston

Author:Anne Logston
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Mundania Press LLC
Published: 2013-04-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Chyrie laid her hand on Rivkah’s arm, halting her.

“The healing that might have saved Doria bought life for me and for my children,” she said. “There is a debt between us.”

“There is no debt,” Valann growled. “It was my choice, and I would choose the same again. If there was debt, it was her debt to you for wrongs that might have cost you your chance to bear child.”

“There is a debt between us,” Chyrie said again. “One day there will come a way for me to repay it.”

Rivkah squeezed Chyrie’s shoulder.

“That’s kind of you,” she said, “but I don’t think there’s anything to repay. Whatever Rom said, Ria was a warrior, and a brave one. She’d have given her life to save a pregnant woman, human or elf, if the choice had been hers.”

“As would any elf in the forest,” Chyrie said. “But she did not make that choice.”

Rivkah was silent for a long moment, then asked lamely, “Would you like to see the wall?”

“Indeed we would,” Valann said. “I would like to see how it is built.”

Rivkah took them outside the keep to examine the wall more closely. Although the walkway was wide enough on top for four men to walk abreast, they could not walk the entire circumference of the city there because of the many incomplete sections. Most of these partially built sections were being worked on by crews of burly human men who stopped to stare with curiosity and hostility at their observers, but Rivkah led Val and Chyrie past these places to the east wall, where, she said, they could see how the magical portion of the construction took place.

The journey itself was an interesting one—an education to herself as well, Rivkah added, as she had been out of the city with Sharl for some months, and a great deal of building had taken place since then.

“That northern part, nearest the keep, houses four temples already,” Rivkah said. “We’ve brought in people from so many different lands that I’m afraid we have quite a mixture of beliefs. Sometimes I think everyone who steps into the city brings a new set of gods with them. Sharl thinks that one day we’ll have twenty temples here.”

“Temples?” Valann asked curiously, mouthing the unfamiliar word. “Oh, sacred places, such as the altars.”

“Something of that kind.” Rivkah indicated another turning in the muddy road. “One day this road will all be stone, too. Over there, just south of the keep, we’ve already begun to build houses for the minor nobles, who want to live nearest the keep. In case of danger, of course, and for convenience in visiting.

“Merchants are building shops on the east side of the city, and in the center is the market,” Rivkah continued. “It’s only a small market now, but Sharl has left plenty of room. I don’t know how we’ll ever fill it. From the market south on both sides are only a few homes now—-a good many of the common folk live

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