The Faithful Traitor (Wizard & Dragon Book 2) by Hughes Robert Don

Author:Hughes, Robert Don [Hughes, Robert Don]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Venture Press
Published: 2016-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve: ELARYL’S STAND

“IF there’s anything to you at all, why don’t you do something?” Elaryl shouted as she shook her fist at the sky.

Weeks had passed since she’d been visited by the strange old wizard who called himself Seagryn’s friend. In the days since his last appearance shed waited in vain for some new message from Nebalath concerning Seagryn’s safety and whereabouts. Her patience — with both Seagryn and the Power — was growing thin indeed. And since Seagryn was unavailable, Elaryl blasted the Power daily with her frustrations. The rooftop of the new Talarath mansion made an excellent place to ventilate these feelings. She didn’t know whether the Power was up, down, inside her or all around her, but wherever the Power was, on the rooftop she could at least shout.

“My father taught me you were the most powerful agency in the cosmos! I believed it, Seagryn believed it — all Lamath believes it still! So what are you doing about my husband?”

“My Lady,” a tiny voice called hesitantly, and Elaryl whirled to face her maid.

“What is it?” she demanded. “Can’t you see I’m talking to someone out here?”

Her maid — a slender brunette named Jocelath — trembled at these words but shook her head. She stood inside the dome that roofed the stairway down into the house. Elaryl knew that on no account would Jocelath come outside. She also knew why, and it greatly irritated her. She turned her back on her maid and continued her conversation with the Power silently. As she knew it would, the maid’s plea came again — more urgently. “My Lady!”

Elaryl spun around again. “What?”

“My Lady, the dragon has been seen about, and … Please — my Lady. Won’t you please come inside?”

Elaryl again turned her back on the curly-haired girl and walked decisively to the battlements. “Why should I?” she demanded, peering at the western horizon of Lamath. It had been in that direction that Seagryn had departed. Though she knew in her head he’d traveled all about the world since that time, emotionally she couldn’t help but watch the west for his return.

“It will do no one any good if your husband returns to find you’ve been eaten —”

“Maybe I want to be eaten, Jocelath! Have you thought about that?”

“My Lady, don’t even joke about —”

Elaryl ignored the girl’s protests, continuing, “Maybe I consider that the shortest route to the Power’s presence! I hear certain idiots are thinking such these days …”

Jocelath anxiously scanned that portion of the sky she could see through the doorway. “My Lady, please! You know that the dragon has recently been sighted very near this region, and if you care at all about your personal safety you’ll —”

“Who’s that?” Elaryl snapped, for in pacing around the low wall she’d noticed a cloud of dust on the road to the north. That usually meant riders from the capital city, which in turn usually meant news. Before Jocelath could finish her plea, Elaryl had bolted past her on her way down the stairs to investigate.

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