The Gate of Bones by Emily Drake

Author:Emily Drake
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Jonnard woke at the first touch of dawn and got up quietly, knowing that Isabella would sleep late. She slept later and later each day as her activities and the turning of the season took its toll. She was old, he knew, far older than he who had slept when thrown through the centuries after the battle of Brennard and Gregory the Gray, while she had lived, and even her own magic and that of the Leucators now seemed to be losing ground in keeping back the natural tides of Time. Still, he had hopes of not waking her.

He’d learned much in Naria, and she would be eagerly after him when she did awake. He would be able to tell her then that Fremmler had done as hoped, and more. The trade would make them wealthy as well as feared, and the first holds she wanted to establish over the cities and provinces of Haven had begun to be well anchored. All this, and more, would please her greatly later. Now was his time for himself.

He drew his father’s journals out of their warded safekeeping, and laid them out. So many hints he had read over the days since finding them. To think that this man had raised and taught him, and never said a word about what he’d found in the journals.

Jonnard put a fingertip to one page. It crackled faintly under his touch, not with aging of paper, but with power, an energy he recognized well. He traced the words inked there.

I have found the place of repose of Gregory the Gray. He sleeps a sleep from which none of us could awaken him, nor would I wish to. He did all that he could to kill me, as I did all I could in kind. I could kill him yet; however, his mind walks on planes which none of us could see otherwise and when he awakens, he may be of use to me. So I will leave him be and let the guardian who watches over him think the secret well kept.

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