Shadow Magic by Karen Whiddon

Author:Karen Whiddon [Whiddon, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal Romance
ISBN: 9780505524911
Publisher: Love Spell
Published: 2002-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Fiallan coughed. He too seemed to be watching Egann, waiting for a response.

“You look to the wrong man for an answer,” Egann drawled, letting his irritation show in his mocking tone. “`Tis Fiallan who must find my replacement, Fiallan who is known as the Wise One of Rune.”

Giving Egann a black look, Fiallan held up his hand. “Enough of this. Child,” he smiled down at Deirdre, squeezing her shoulder once before releasing it. “If there is a way to remove your curse, I will endeavor to find it. But for now we must worry about the Amulet of Gwymyrr, and the fact that the potential of its power lies in the wrong hands.”

When Deirdre gave a slow nod, Fiallan clapped his hands. Once, twice, then a third time. Again the fabric of time shifted, again the air seemed to shimmer, the veil to part.

Egann blinked, wondering what tricks the wise one was up to now. In a moment, he had his answer. When the world righted itself again, Weylyn pawed the path in front of him and nickered.

“Welcome, old friend.” Laying a hand on the stallion’s silky coat, Egann shot Fiallan a look of gratitude, before turning his attention to the great beast. “I am sorry that you had to cut short your hunt. I can but hope that it was a good one.”

With a snort, the animal seemed to indicate that it had been.

“He balked at first at wearing again the form of a horse.” Fiallan said. “But I thought you might have need of him, since it appears you must now travel Northeast up the rocky coast.”

Had the old one been following them? Listening while cloaked in secrets to every word they spoke? About to ask, Egann took one look at Deirdre’s stricken expression and realized that she wondered the same.

Did Fiallan know that Egann and Deirdre had made love? Not once, but two times, that each time they touched or kissed, their passion flared more intensely?

“How know you where we must travel?” he asked instead.

Fiallan’s face creased into an amused smile. “I have heard the amulet sing, remember? Methinks it comes from Barras Head.”

Egann cocked his head, considering. Barras Head had no human settlement that he knew of. “I thought we would travel inland, to Suttin Montis or Cadbury.”

Fiallan did not immediately reply to this; rather he stroked his long beard and appeared deep in thought.

“Are there caves in these places?” Deirdre asked. "For I have seen such in my dreams.

As Egann opened his mouth to answer, Fiallan lifted one hand in warning. Egann held his silence.

“Described this cave,” the wise one ordered. “Tell me what you saw.”

Nodding once, Deirdre’s lids slipped down over her eyes.

When she spoke, her voice sounded flat, no inflection or emotion coloring her words. “I saw jagged cliffs, much taller and more forbidding than my home at Carn Vellan. The dark mouth of the cave blended in with the rock, making it hard to see. The wind blew, great gusts of sand and rock swirling.

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