The Legacy of Lord Regret: Strange Threads: Book 1 by Sam Bowring

Author:Sam Bowring
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780733629877
Publisher: Hachette Littlehampton
Published: 2012-08-14T06:00:00+00:00

‘You?’

‘Yes. Can you believe it? It was my wife’s idea – or she who would have been my wife. She did not hold with my constant wandering, but knew my love of growing things and doing good. So we bought this big farm together, took on many people to work it happily. I used my talents to make sure the corn grew tall, the strawberries fat. I became mayor of the local town. It was a quiet, peaceful life, but fulfilling. I saw it all at once, living through it in a few moments. Do you know what that does to a person, Yalenna? To remember something that never was?’

‘I do.’

‘You saw something too?’

Yalenna shrugged. ‘A long life as Priestess. Perhaps it did not affect me as it did you, for I knew what I did instead was still worthwhile.’

‘How nice for you,’ Salarkis snarled, ‘to have remained so perfect. Though can you really claim …’ He seemed to catch himself, and grow a little sad. ‘You must excuse me. You were not twisted beyond recognition. I did not choose this.’

‘But you can choose to fight it.’

‘Yes.’

Again Salarkis stood, this time without menace.

‘The blessing you gave,’ he said, ‘did not survive rebirth.’

Yalenna stared at him in surprise. ‘You want it back?’

‘Empathy is what I remember most about my old self, though as a phantom thing I cannot quite grasp hold of. Hurry and put me in reach of it, before I change my mind.’

Yalenna bit her lip. ‘Not so fast.’

‘Don’t pretend you won’t. You know I’ll find it difficult to be malicious, if I feel that way again. You want to bless me.’

‘I think you’ve come a long way on your own.’

‘Yalenna!’

‘I ask something in return.’

His tail thumped the chair behind him impatiently. ‘What?’

‘You say you’ve seen the others.’

‘I will not help you fight them. I no longer care for this conflict.’

‘I’m not asking you to fight them, just tell me where they are.’

Salarkis frowned. ‘That sounds like a good bargain for you. Castrate me and track the others? I don’t think so.’ He flexed a sharp finger. ‘I’ll tell you what – you give me a thing, I’ll give you a thing. That’s fair, isn’t it? I’ll tell you where one of them is.’

Yalenna thought hard. Four great threats – Forger, Karrak, Despirrow and Stealer – all roamed the world. Forger was in Tallahow, that she knew … but the others? Yet she already knew who she would pick.

‘Mergan,’ she said.

‘Of course, Mergan. Your old ally, your leader, in a way – and yet he left you, without word or trace. How that must have stung.’

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