Pendragon's Heir by Suzannah Rowntree

Author:Suzannah Rowntree [Rowntree, Suzannah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bocfodder Press
Published: 2015-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

“BORS!” PERCEVAL WINDMILLED, FELL, SLID, AND staggered up again at the foot of the cliff while stones rained around him. “Bors! Bors!” Sand sucked at his feet, and then he was in the water. A wave slapped his chest, forcing grit into his eyes, but through tears and seawater he saw the white planks of the ship and Sir Bors leaning over the rail, reaching out a hand. He thrashed through the waves, caught his brother-knight’s hand at last, and rose over the side, dripping and weeping, to land on the deck.

Bors seized him in a bear-hug, slapping his back and shouting. When he let go, Perceval collapsed to his knees. Worry checked Bors’s welcome. “Perceval! What is it? What’s amiss?”

“Nothing!” He hoped the water running off his head would disguise how recklessly he was weeping and laughing. “Not a thing! Oh, God, fair Father! Nothing’s amiss!”

Then wind whipped into his face and Perceval, dragging the back of his hand across his eyes, saw for the first time that the ship’s sails and anchor had run up while he greeted Bors, and now the rudder moved without human hands, steering them out to sea.

“The ship,” he said, and let the words hang while he gulped down his tears. It was a morning of marvels. There was no need to ask questions. Nor to rise from his knees. They wanted to be on the deck right now; there they were happily humbled.

Sir Bors’s teeth flashed in his brown beard with a deep and contagious joy. “Sir, I perceive this ship is as great a mystery to you as it is to me. But when I first came on board, I found the hermit Naciens here. And by his counsel, we await but one other.”

Perceval dragged in one cautious breath, and then another, before venturing to ask. “The Grail Knight?”

“The Grail Knight.”

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