Tanith Lee by The Winter Players
Author:The Winter Players
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-12-12T02:16:54+00:00
The plain was barren and bitter cold. When the sun set, the sword mountains turned black and terrible against its redness.
Five days she was on the plain, for weather and terrain made things harsh for her, and difficult. She met neither animals nor men. Sometimes she passed a ruin. Trees grew here and there, marking brackish watercourses. Maybe in spring the landscape would wake, but she did not think so. It was as though a plague had passed over it, killing everything, and then even the plague had died.
Thin snow sprinkled down. At night she created fire. The light and crackle of the flames seemed to echo all over the desolation. She considered the woman’s words, how, she had said, a witch would fly. Oaive wondered dazedly if she could. Grey would tell her she could.
She reached the mountains on the sixth day.
They did not look real. They shimmered like effigies of polished marble. The plain meandered in valleys around and between them. She found a sort of road of cracked stone, and hail began to smash on it.
When the hail slackened, she stared up and saw that the road ended half a mile away, because a mountain had fallen in its path. This had occurred perhaps a thousand years before. A massive jumble of blocks, its highest tips were still blanched with snow; forest had fastened on its rifts like ivy on a collapsed building. The other mountains stood aloof, ignoring it. Their time, no doubt, would also come.
The forest called Oaive, but its voice was a wail of pain. She wanted to run away, it was so strong, this impression of distress.
She went on, towards the first swathe of trees.
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