Ladyhawke by Joan D. Vinge

Author:Joan D. Vinge
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 0451133218
Publisher: Signet Books
Published: 1985-03-16T07:00:00+00:00

The Bishop stood in the unpleasant and unaccustomed dankness of one of the numberless secret cellars hidden within Aquila Castle. Only one thing could have drawn him to this place in the middle of the night . . . He gazed darkly at the pile of freshly skinned wolf pelts lying on the floor at his feet. With the toe of his slipper he unlatched the solid-seeming metal base of his clerical staff. It slid back, revealing the gleaming, razor-sharp steel blade hidden within it.

Using the blade’s point, he began to peel one pelt and then another off the pile. Each one he saw marked another failure. As the pile continued to shrink, he flung the pelts aside more and more feverishly, spattering his white robes with blood.

The wolf hunter stood to one side, his brutal face filling with fear at the furious intensity of the Bishop’s search.

“Useless! All of them!” The Bishop looked up with blazing eyes.

Cezar hunched his shoulders. “My traps are full,” he said gruffly. “I can’t kill every wolf in France.”

The Bishop controlled his rage with an effort, forcing himself to think clearly and dispassionately. There was only one way to be certain that the hunter would find the right wolf. He knew the risk of revealing too much; and yet he had to be sure . . .

At last he said, “There is a woman.”

“Your Grace?” Cezar said, not understanding.

“A beautiful woman. With alabaster skin and the eyes of a dove.” Her memory haunted him, night and day. It haunted him now. “She travels by night—only by night. Her sun is the moon, and her name is . . .” Turning back to the hunter, he spoke it like a prayer, “Isabeau.”

Cezar continued to gape stupidly at him.

“Find her and you find the wolf,” the Bishop snapped. “The wolf I want. The wolf . . .” he looked on the ghost of another face, “who loves her . . .” He turned away abruptly, disappearing up the steps.

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