The Floating Island by Elizabeth Haydon

Author:Elizabeth Haydon [Haydon, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Published: 2011-07-21T10:16:41+00:00

16

The Castle

THE CASTLE ELYSIAN WAS PERCHED ATOP A TALL, ROCKY CLIFF AT THE northern edge of the island. More steps than Ven could count were carved into the crags, zigging, zagging, and winding all the way up to the gleaming white palace at the top.

At the bottom of the rocky cliff, and growing up its face, stood an immense forest of trees, all taller than he had ever seen. They seemed different from normal trees as well, as if they had been carved from stone, except that they were green and purple and blue and brown, and hummed sort of like the Living Water.

Jutting from the front of the cliff was a giant irregular rock formation that seemed to be naturally formed in the shape of a man’s face, craggy and bearded.

“What’s that?” he asked the constable, who was just waking up.

“Hmmm? What? Oh, that’s the Guardian of the Mountain,” Evan Knapp said. “It’s been there ever since the castle was built. The current king, His Sovereign Majesty, King Vandemere, decided he didn’t want to live in the castle his forefathers had always ruled from, because it was far away from the people and the places where most things were happening, so he built this one—Elysian’s brand new, and is still unfinished. The day the king moved in, people noticed that formation in the rocks they had never seen before. Some say it emerged when the king arrived, and stands watch for him.”

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