Patricia Kennealy-Morrison - Keltiad Tales of Arthur 02 by The Oak Above the Kings

Author:The Oak Above the Kings [Kings, The Oak Above the]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-05-29T13:11:16+00:00

In the dawn, she had ridden up the dale to Ratherne, with me and Daronwy and a few others; and there as the light broke over that tower of iniquity she had thrown down its walls by the power of her magic. One moment it had stood there, gray and solid in the dawn; the next, it was dust and rubble, all its sorcerous defenses breached by Edeyrn’s death, all its resistance withdrawn.

I had been shaken by the thing—this was, after all, where my own father had been slain—but Morgan’s face had had no emotion on it at all. Just a face in composure, a face in repose; fair and cold and pale in the early morning chill. But as the walls had begun to crack, the stones to fall like rain, the ground to roll beneath our feet, Morgan’s face had stayed so; and that, I think, frightened me more than all.

I had taxed her with it later, but she had looked at me as if I had lost my wits, even asked me if I had. And all at once I had been minded of one I had not thought of in some time Twice, now, in my life had I seen Birogue of the Mountain (and some small part of me knew that I should see her yet again ere all was done); but now, unlooked-for, I saw her there in Morgan’s face. And though that face had been never far from my own, sleeping and waking, for the past half-decade, I had looked on it then as on a stranger’s

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