Orbelon's World (Book 3) by Martin Ash

Author:Martin Ash
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Outside Publishing
Published: 2013-04-13T23:00:00+00:00

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The night was well-advanced. Leth lay on his back in the bed provided for him within his apartment. Sleep eluded him; his mind threw itself from one set of memories, one concern, one experience, to another. He had lingered long in the observatory high above, staring at the unworldly night sky and the two strange and entrancing bodies it held. He had asked no further questions of Lakewander, though his brain teemed with enquiry. It seemed that anything he asked, of Lakewander or her two companions, was answered only in terms of conundrums, ellipses or evasions, vexing him further and setting more distance between him and the answers he sought. So he had come from the observatory in a state of deep reverie and abstraction. When Lakewander left him at his door, bidding him goodnight, he hardly noticed her departure.

He lay alone in darkness, darkness so complete in this soundless, windowless place that he could well imagine himself to be adrift in some unearthly void, deprived of all sensation save that of thought. And again the notion came to him that he was no longer among the living. This was night without end. His thoughts were those of the disembodied, the recently dead. They filtered from him as his soul, accustomed to flesh, gradually grew to accept its new - or former - state, and when all conscious thought had gone he would be absorbed into. . . what? Non-existence - the mystery of what lay beyond life.

No! Again he rejected these notions. I am a living man! I am Leth, King of Enchantment's Reach! I have not died! I am in another world, and I will return!

There was a sound, and Leth was instantly alert. The handle of the door to his apartment grated lightly as it was turned from outside. Leth reached for the Orbsword which lay in its scabbard beside the bed.

He could see, through the open portal that let into the main chamber, that the door had now opened. The deep yellow glow of a lamp illumined a tall figure which entered silently, closing the door behind it. It approached the bedchamber, clad in a robe of some dark material which fell almost to the floor. Long fair hair framed the face, falling past the shoulders. Leth recognized Lakewander.

'Lord Swordbearer, are you awake?' She came to his bedside and looked down at him, smiling. 'Don't be alarmed. You do not need the Orbsword.'

Lakewander placed the lamp upon a table beside the bed, then straightened, unfastened the cord that bound her robe at the waist and shrugged the garment from her shoulders. She stood naked before him. Leth gazed up at her. Her body, pale and shadowed, was magnificent, lit by the warm lampglow in tones ranging from deepest umber to saffron. Tiny downy hairs upon her flat belly glimmered in the light, her belly and breasts rose and fell in rhythm with her breathing. Her limbs were long, supple and well-toned. The breasts, though not large, were full and perfectly round, the aureolae dark circles, the nipples proudly erect.

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