Mistress of the Pearl by Eric Van Lustbader

Author:Eric Van Lustbader
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2011-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

“Over here!”

An immense male with a flaming red beard, flaked with snow, rimed with ice, was beckoning to her.

“Over here, Riane!”

His blue eyes were laughing as he held out a hand and drew her upward.

“We’re at the top of the world,” he said. And pointed. “You see?”

An ice storm—looking from this immense height as diaphanous and innocent as mist—was stinging the mountainside. But beyond, she could see another massive block of basalt, rising pyramidal, black and forbidding in the middle ground.

“Kunlung Mountain,” Redbeard said. His skull was as bare and smooth as the ice field below. “Where all the lightning on Kundala has gathered.”

“Why?”

“Like us, it is waiting for the day of Deliverance.”

“Will it come?” she asked.

“It will come,” Redbeard said with such assurance that she believed to the very marrow of her bones. He had that effect on her; he always had.

“And beyond Kunlung?” Now she pointed due north.

He looked at her, and there was a sadness in his eyes that made her want to weep. “I suppose I should not be surprised. We have been traveling a long time, you and I. You were little more than a baby when we left.” He nodded. “We are returning, Riane, just as I promised you we would. Beyond Kunlung is home. What the Kundalan call the Unknown Territories … .”

Riane heard these voices in discrete syllables, like the slow accretion of time, millisecond by millisecond, piling up like granules of sand on a vast and uncharted seashore. She lay in a kind of twilight haze, suspended somewhere between consciousness and the abyss of her vision.

An instant later, she started awake.

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