The Pendragon's Quest (The Last Pendragon Saga Book 4) by Woodbury Sarah

Author:Woodbury, Sarah [Woodbury, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Cade

“You have the ring, right?” Cade said.

“Of course.” Rhun held up his left fist. “Right here.”

Cade couldn’t get his next words out because his throat had closed. He nodded instead.

“You’re not nervous, are you?” Goronwy said. “No second thoughts?”

“Have you lost your mind? That’s not it at all,” Cade said. “I didn’t want anything to go wrong and already it has because Taliesin isn’t here, though he sent word ahead—”

The entrance to Deganwy’s great hall flew open, cutting Cade’s sentence short. And it was Taliesin himself strolling across the threshold as if nothing were amiss. Rain poured outside, and he shed water from his cloak on all and sundry as he passed among the many guests, grinning a mischievous grin all the while. A path cleared before him and, with a nod to individual dignitaries, peasants, and warriors he singled out especially, he made his way to where Cade waited.

“I see I’m just in time,” Taliesin said.

“That you are,” Cade said. “I was afraid I was going to have to do this without you.”

“Not possible,” Taliesin said. “Even if Father Siawn might be adequate to the task, I couldn’t countenance such a thing. Where’s Rhiannon?”

“Coming,” Rhun said. “Bronwen and Alcfrith are getting her ready.”

“Excellent,” Taliesin said.

Cade observed his friend. He hadn’t really looked at him since Arawn’s cavern, when Arawn had broken Taliesin’s staff. Whether through Arianrhod’s magic or his own, Taliesin had held it again in the clearing and while they fought the demons in the field, and now carried it as he always had. Cade couldn’t even discern a crack where Arawn had split it. Taliesin’s shock of white-blonde hair was slightly more kempt than usual, and he appeared to have made some effort to clean himself for Cade’s big day. Instead of his usual tattered black cloak, he wore the green one Cade had acquired from the man he’d killed outside the entrance to Arawn’s cavern. Cade didn’t remember giving it to him.

“You’re in a good mood,” Cade said. “Why? I know it isn’t for my wedding.”

“I am very pleased for you and Rhiannon, of course,” Taliesin said. “But you’re right. I finally have conceived a stratagem that will put us back on the path to solving some of these problems that face us.”

“You have a plan to defeat the Saxons?” Cade said.

Taliesin flapped his hand in a dismissive gesture. “We’ll deal with them in due course—I have much to report that you will not yet have heard. No, my plan is how to get my sight back.”

Cade stared at Taliesin. “And that’s why you’re happy?”

“Yes,” Taliesin said. “It’s far better than not having a plan.”

“I thought you had it back,” Cade said. “After the demon presence attacked me on the battlefield, you told Rhiann that you would meet us here, at Deganwy, for the wedding, so…” Cade trailed off at Taliesin’s puzzled look.

“I didn’t need the sight to know that you were going to marry Rhiannon soon, nor to know that you’d choose Deganwy over Aberffraw for the event.

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