Sword of Light by Katherine Roberts

Author:Katherine Roberts [Katherine Roberts]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: sword_of_light
Publisher: Templar Publishing
Published: 2012-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

Explaining breathlessly how they’d come across Mordred’s broken standard and chased his scattered men through the wood, Cai led them back to the path, where they found the three knights with their rescued property. Two of Mordred’s bloodbeards lay dead in the mud. Groaning on his knees at the sharp end of Sir Agravaine’s lance, a third nursed a broken arm. The others, including the bloodbeard captain with the dark fist, must have got away.

Sir Bors looked to be fully recovered. He strode across to Rhianna and seized her by the arm. “You idiot girl! You little fool! What did you think you were doing, going off alone like that?”

Furious tears sprang to Rhianna’s eyes. She tried to tug out Excalibur to show him. But the big knight gripped her wrist and shook her hard.

“Never do that again!” His glare included Elphin.

“We rescued you from the Saxon camp!” Rhianna yelled back, her eyes flashing just as dangerously as the knight’s. “If it hadn’t been for us, you’d still be back there in the hands of Mordred’s bloodbeards! Besides, you were asleep. We couldn’t ask you to show us where you threw away the sword, could we?”

“She has a point, Bors,” Sir Bedivere said, fighting a smile. “I did tell her to wait until you woke up, but you know the young. Impatient as always.”

“You could have been killed,” the knight said in a choked tone, unexpectedly putting his big arm around Rhianna and crushing her in an awkward hug. “Then what would I have told Merlin when he turns up?”

Rhianna eyed Elphin over his shoulder, wondering if any of them would ever see Merlin again.

Sir Bors let her go and examined her for damage. “By some miracle you seem to be in one piece,” he muttered. “But from now on, I’m not letting you out of my sight. This…” he held up Elphin’s harp bag, “… stays with me until we’re safely inside the walls of Camelot.”

Elphin did not look happy, but Rhianna guessed his fingers would not be up to playing much magic for a while, anyway.

“Elphin won’t use it on you again, Sir Bors,” she said sweetly. “He won’t have to, not now I’ve got Excalibur.”

Sir Bors went very still. The other two knights glanced at each other. Cai smiled. He’d seen the sword shining in the woods, but said nothing.

“How do you think I rescued Elphin from Mordred’s men?” she said just as sweetly, wriggling out of Sir Bors’ hug and lifting her saddle flap. Silver light shone across the path.

Sir Agravaine examined the sword, careful not to touch it. “It’s Excalibur all right,” he confirmed, looking at Rhianna differently.

Sir Bedivere smiled at her. “I thought those bloodbeards looked as if they’d seen a ghost. Well done, Damsel Rhianna.”

Sir Bors blinked at her and shook himself. “Right,” he grunted. “Wrap that sword back up, and get this piece of filth on a horse. We’re taking the lot of you up to camp before anything else happens.”

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