Prophecy: Book Five of the Blending by Sharon Green

Author:Sharon Green [Green, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Tuneyloon, General, Fantasy, Epic
ISBN: 9780380788118
Google: Nb29uFsDJjEC
Amazon: 038078811X
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1999-07-01T07:08:35+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Delin strode toward the meeting room he was to get together with the others in, his mood rather foul. Things weren’t going at all the way they should have, and his efforts so far hadn’t done anything to change matters. He didn’t understand why his methods weren’t working, not when everything inside him said they should have been completely successful. Could someone be working against him in secret, someone he didn’t know about and therefore couldn’t be expected to suspect…?

“Oh … Delin,” Homin said as he walked out of the corridor leading to his wing, the words no more than an acknowledgment of Delin’s presence rather than a greeting or the preliminary to a question. “I’m on my way to the meeting.”

“You should already be at the meeting,” Delin pointed out as he slowed his pace, forcibly keeping himself from snarling. “Why are you only just on your way?”

“I became … involved with something,” Homin replied, looking around rather than meeting Delin’s gaze. “It made me lose track of the time, but there’s no harm done. After all, you haven’t gotten there yet either.”

Delin nearly choked on the words that would have told Homin he was supposed to have waited for Delin, just the way all of them had at the last meeting. He was their leader now, but it was far too soon to rub their noses in it. A better idea might be to hand out the medication they needed to be free of pain at the meetings, then no one would even consider being tardy…

“Oh, by the way, Bron won’t be with us,” Homin said, his manner reminding Delin of the way Homin used to be, which was a bit slow, more quiet than not, almost completely unreliable, and with very little personality. “He sent one of his servants to tell me that so I might pass it on to you, and that he would reschedule the meeting for a more … convenient time. I wonder how he’ll know what’s convenient for the rest of us.”

This time Delin stopped short, so outraged he could barely contain it. Bron had sent word to Homin that he would reschedule a meeting Delin had called? Just as though he were their leader rather than Delin? Not in this lifetime!

“You, come here!” Delin snarled to a servant who stood ready to get the Five anything they desired. “Go to Lord Bron’s wing and find him no matter what he’s doing, and tell him I said that if he isn’t at the meeting in two minutes, he won’t be getting anything to drink tomorrow morning. No, don’t worry about what that means, just tell him!”

The servant bowed hastily and then took off at a run, which made Delin feel a small bit better. At least there was someone around there who took his position seriously…

“Would you really do that?” Homin asked from the place where he, too, had stopped. “Withhold Bron’s medication, I mean. Would you really do that to him?”

“If

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