The Lyre Dancers by Mandy Haggith

Author:Mandy Haggith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saraband
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE PROPHECIES

Manigan looked around to see if he had everyone’s attention. Fin was gazing back at him, and Kino had his head tilted to one side. He was not drinking, Rian noticed. Was the ceremonial killing somehow sufficient for him? Badger was busy with the meat, but looking around, as if watching for something. Rian saw Manigan note this, and a little smile flitted into his face. Then he turned to her and his smile broadened.

‘Go on,’ she said.

He closed his eyes briefly, then opened them and spoke, as if only to her. ‘The first prophecy comes from the Sage. Because he had been waiting so long inside the stone, he was impatient to make it as soon as possible after Red had chipped him a mouth to speak with.’

‘What’s red?’ Fin asked.

‘That’s the name of the smith who was one of the Bear clan; I don’t know her real name, so I call her Red. Yes, she was a smith like your father. She’d discovered how to make iron. This was way back, and the king of the Bear clan, King Ban, asked the Merlin what was to be done with it. The Merlin gave Red this round stone, the size of a head and told her to take it to her forge and listen to it until it spoke to her and whatever it said would be the right thing.’

‘She wasn’t much of a sculptor, young Red. She mostly made blades. The odd bit of jewellery, delicate things, you know. And here was this muckle stone. What was she supposed to do with it? I’ve told this story so many times before. Rian, you tell it.’

She chuckled. ‘No.’

‘Aye, go on. The one about Red carving the three faces on the stone.’

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