The Bird of Dawning: A Cat Among Dragons Christmas Story by Boykin Alma

Author:Boykin, Alma [Boykin, Alma]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

“Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and with fear and trembling stand. Ponder nothing earthly minded, for with blessing in His hand Christ our Lord to Earth descendeth, our full homage to demand.”

The words sounded like Advent but something more rose behind them, for lack of a better word. “I thought she was alone?” Weber whispered.

“Not exactly, that is, um, how to put it?” St. John rubbed the pendant with her thumb. “Rachel is alone but is not entirely by herself? I think you’re about to see why we never pester or distract her at the Solstice.” With some trepidation Weber and Sgt. St. John pulled open one chapel door. All the usual lights had been turned off and the two sergeants peered into the blackness.

As his eyes adapted, Weber saw one candle. It shone steadily from inside a cylinder of red glass. That gave him the location of the presence light beside the altar, and as he watched, he caught the small glow of two more small tapers that flickered on the other side of the altar, by the pulpit and Advent wreath. They cast just enough light to allow him to see a dark figure standing before the altar, arms spread, hands open with palms up. The song he’d heard continued, “King of kings, yet born of Mary, as of old on earth He stood, Lord of lords, in human vesture, in the body and the blood; He will give to all the faithful His own self for heavenly food.” Weber shivered despite himself. He’d never thought of the Eucharist in quite that way. St. John went still and he wondered what she was thinking, since she wasn’t Christian.

“Thanks be the chapel’s shielded,” she murmured, so quiet he could barely hear her. “I don’t care to imagine what she’d be calling—”

The rest of her words vanished in a vision of the end of time as Commander Na Gael’s gifts and that older, wilder something overwhelmed Weber’s shields.

“Rank on rank the host of heaven Spreads its vanguard on the way,

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