The Band of Four 03 - A Dragon's Ascension by Ed Greenwood

Author:Ed Greenwood [Greenwood, Ed]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, General, Epic, Magic, Imaginary Wars and Battles, Dragons
ISBN: 9780765341440
Google: mhgx03oeVJUC
Amazon: B000F6Z9EG
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

gods spit on you! Are you blind, King of Aglirta? Or are so many lives nothing to you?”

“They are everything to me, daughter of Raevur,” he said grimly, “but they are a list that a trained bard could remember, and recite entire during, say, a single meal. You have doomed countless more, you and your sisters.”

She laughed incredulously. ” We! How have we doomed anyone?”

King Kelgrael shook his head slightly, those old, old eyes on hers, and under that sad gaze she fell silent. “You awakened me, you four, and destroyed the only swift means of my returning to Slumber, all in the same stroke.”

He waved at the ruined throne behind him, and asked gently, as if patiently schooling a child, “Now, Tshamarra, you are the sorceress of us two, so you tell me: what does that mean?”

The woman on her knees looked up at him with something strange kindling in her dark eyes and moved her lips twice without saying anything, ere she murmured, “I-I, Lord, I know not. Tell me, please.”

The king nodded, as if satisfied, and said in the same gentle voice, “It means that, at long last, the Serpent is stirring.

Awakening as I have done, with no way-short of almost every wizard in all Darsar whelming to work together, or all the Dwaer-Stones being found and properly used-to drive Aglirta’s ancient foe back down, in time.”

“And so?” Tshamarra whispered, foreboding in her eyes.

“And so it has come down to this,” the king said slowly, and threw back his head to draw in a deep breath. “All I can do now,” he added, more briskly, “is use the binding ‘twixt the Serpent and myself to buy Aglirta a little more time.”

He turned his head, then, and raised his voice. “Overdukes, hear my royal command: get to the Serpent swiftly, with force enough to slay—and do what must be done. This is imperative, if

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