King's Blood by Judith Tarr

Author:Judith Tarr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2010-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

It was very late, and the chapel was dark. The vigil lamp had burned low. The air was perfectly still, and seemed colder even than it should. Greyness suffused it.

Edith drew a deep breath. This might make matters even worse. But she could not think of anything else to try. She clasped her hands and stilled her mind.

The prayers and psalms that came to her were in Latin and the beautiful lilt of Greek. She was very careful to keep her mind away from Saxon. The words poured through her, taking shapes as notes of music: pure clarity of chant rising to heaven, up and up to the limits of her strong young voice.

The walls caught it and sent it echoing back. The chapel rang like a bell. Edith’s body resonated with it.

She had sung her heart out and exhausted her voice, until even her silence poured upward to Whoever was there to listen—God, old gods, she hardly knew. She crumpled onto her face and lay there, perfectly empty. There was nothing left in her—not even enough to know whether she had succeeded in what she tried to do. She had given it all away.

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