Mortal Suns by Tanith Lee

Author:Tanith Lee [Lee, Tanith]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781468304473
Publisher: Overlook
Published: 2003-10-13T06:00:00+00:00

I, Calistra, was in Oceaxis that night, as I had been, night on night, day on day, left like a shell upon a shore.

The Heart had stopped, and begun again. Prepared, I had only waited out the interval. It felt of death, as in the whirlwind of Thon’s temple it had. But what had stunned me then seemed now far less. I had learned of other separations. And I did not die.

That night, this night. As Klyton dreamed his true dream, I lay awake.

The lamp does not show a circle of rose red on the ceiling, as once it did. They have changed its position. Lut crouches by Gemli.

They have an understanding now. Lut, like the others, has forgotten me, since I am no longer quite a creature of his band.

In the morning I will wake, and day on day, night on night, time will pass. Kelbalba will scold me and make me dance and exercise before her. I will do it in a dream unlike the dream of Klyton.

And a morning will arrive, and Ermias will appear, wearing the jewelry her noble gave her, yet angry, scornful, showing her teeth like a cat.

“Well. He’s wed.”

Uninterested, I will glance.

Ermias will shake her curls. “The precious Prince Klyton. Some slut he’s wanted seven years in the flea pits of Sirma. Couldn’t wait, they say. What tastes he has, for a Sun. And she brought no dowry. He was so eager.”

And walking to the window, forgetting all the dictates of policy and alliance, how treaties are made to hold nation to nation, I will see him for one second in the arms of a lovely goddess-like girl. And the Lakesea will turn green before my eyes and stream into a narrow, fiery line, as I loudly weep my soul from my body, and Ermias, in horror, clutches me back from the brink where already I have tumbled down.

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