The Knight by Kim Dragoner

Author:Kim Dragoner
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Brooklyn Books
Published: 2015-08-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Rhys woke in the dead of the night with hardly any effort at all. He had to try to summon Naida tonight. When the moon was high, he walked down to the River Trent, found a tiny sedimentary pond by the bank and sat down beside it.

“Naida,” he whispered.

“Rhys, how good to see you,” she replied.

They sat and stared at each other for a while. After what seemed like hours, he suddenly spoke.

“Has a muse never found a way to become human?” Rhys asked her suddenly.

Naida gasped at the forthright question.

“Well, there is an old myth about one muse who did manage to take human form, but she was so unfortunate for all her human days afterwards that the conundrum has always been whether it was really worth all her efforts at all.”

“Tell me the story,” he whispered to her suggestively.

She smiled, blushing until her neck and throat, as well as her cheeks, were pink. Clearing her throat, she began.

“Her name was Calamity. She was an artist’s muse many centuries ago in the time of Babylonia. She went to him in a dream one night, whispering in his ear about a terraced building with aqueducts for water where he could make beautiful plants and flowers flourish in the middle of the desert and which would make him famous for millennia.

“She appeared to him repeatedly in his dreams until he finished the final sketches of the gardens and then as the waters started flowing through the aqueducts and canals, she would appear in the pools and fountains and they would sit and talk and gaze at each other for hours on end. The man would bathe in the pools so that he could imagine that she could touch him and that they were lying together. He recited the poems of a king to her and she responded with these poems as well. Soon Calamity got tired of the distant relationship and the man’s heart was so tied to her that he became ill from not being able to hold her in his arms. He wanted her to be his wife and be with him on Earth forever. She wanted the same. So she went to Oberon and Mab and stated her case. They felt pity for her because in those days there was never a couple more in love than the royal couple were. Mab did not want Calamity to leave Eon, as she was one of her favorites at court, but she understood what the faery felt. Mab asked Titania, the High Priestess, to set a task for Calamity that would prove her conviction to the man and Oberon asked Mikah, High Steward, to do the same for the man. The man came to Eon and performed his task while Calamity was sent to Earth to do hers.

“It was meant to be a timely process because if too much time passed they would both begin to age rapidly. Calamity completed her task and returned to Eon to take the

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