Igraine The Brave by Cornelia Funke

Author:Cornelia Funke [Funke, Cornelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780545406185
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Published: 2011-10-01T06:00:00+00:00

The deep growl uttered by the stone lion was such a terrifying sound that all the horses threw their riders and galloped away in panic, while the huge lion slowly, very slowly, closed its jaws and wrapped Igraine and the Sorrowful Knight in darkness. They heard Osmund’s men clambering up the stone outside and hammering on the lion’s nose with their swords. Spear points pushed between the stone lips, crunching. But the mouth refused to open.

“It is not chivalrous to escape such a battle by flight,” whispered the Sorrowful Knight in the darkness.

“But they’d have slit us open!” said Igraine. “Six against two — is that what you’d call chivalrous?”

The Sorrowful Knight had to smile. “Six against one and a half,” he said.

“Oh, all right,” muttered Igraine. “I can’t get to be the most famous knight in the world if I let a nasty bunch like that slice me up at the age of twelve, and you’re too good for such a fate, anyway.”

The Sorrowful Knight sighed once more. Outside, Osmund’s guards were bellowing furiously at one another. “You are an incredibly pigheaded girl, noble Igraine,” said the knight.

“Yes, that’s what Albert always says,” agreed Igraine. “Come on, I’ll lead you down the stairs. I’m afraid it’s been dark inside the tunnel since Albert let the glowworms out because he thought they were unhappy. My brother has a very soft heart when it comes to glowworms and mice.”

Then she took the Sorrowful Knight’s hand and led him down the slippery steps until, by the light of a single glowworm that had lost its way, they reached the underground tunnel that Igraine’s great-grandmother had once had made so that her husband, Pelleas, could escape from his enemies.

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