The Dark Queen by Michael Williams & Teri Williams

Author:Michael Williams & Teri Williams [Williams, Michael & Williams, Teri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781560769255
Google: my-DKQAACAAJ
Amazon: 1560769254
Goodreads: 213027
Publisher: TSR
Published: 1994-02-15T00:20:05+00:00

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Fordus stood on a narrow natural bridge of rock and dried earth left by the lake of molten sand that bubbled and swirled on the desert plain. It was a thin strip of solid ground, untouched by the fire and magma, and narrowing slowly as the hot current ate against its foundations.

It was the country of his dreams: the fire, the lava, the dark bird.

He stood breathless, abstracted, until the shouts of his men awakened him.

Fordus was faced with a choice. Stormlight lay in the pocked and bubbling field, the condor over him, batting its burning wings, while Northstar, only a dozen feet away, stared desperately into the glowing liquid, calling plaintively for help.

Stormlight was in peril, it was plain to see.

But the condor ...

Was Fordus's old friend, his dream-summoner.

And Stormlight. . . was dissident. A troublesome lieutenant. Whatever happened to him was in the lap of the gods.

Fordus rushed toward Northstar, pulling the lad from the lip of the widening chasm.

"My medallion!" Northstar cried. "The disk!"

Fordus knew what he meant at once. The religious pendant, given to Northstar on his naming night, was a bronze replica of one of the fabled Disks of Mishakal. Worthless to anyone but the devoted lad, it now hung by its broken chain from an outcropping of rock scarcely a foot above the widening crevasse.

"Walk carefully toward the high ground!" Fordus shouted, leaning over the burning lake, his lean, muscular arm stretching toward the medallion, his fingers spread and extended. "Save yourself, North-star!"

It sounded heroic, like the stuff of Larken's poetry. It would make for a good song in the evening's Telling.

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