The Queen of Wolves by Douglas Clegg

Author:Douglas Clegg [Clegg, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Vampires
ISBN: 0441016200
Amazon: B00OLBCW2S
Goodreads: 1246488
Publisher: Ace
Published: 2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

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THE PALACE

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This new vault of sky was made of the underpinnings of the last Myrryd, buttressed with great stone arches that seemed all of one piece, and which descended downward as if the beneath was a great well, a secret bunker, deep and endless. It was a ruined and shattered landscape, for walls crumbled, and roads had become muddy with the leaking of fountains and canals both above and below. Mosaics adorned the walls, and there was no torch that lit here, but all was dark—and yet my eyes, powerful in absolute night, saw more clearly than in torchlight.

Ophion did not wish to accompany me, for he spoke of the depths farther below. “It is a drop into a lost doom,” he whispered. “Do not seek such places.”

“You must show me the palace of the first Medhyic dynasty,” I said.

Ophion glanced downward to the subterranean vista of this under-city. “Yes, I cannot forget these places, for they have been pierced into my bones.”

He began shouting “There!” and “There!” as he mentioned places where mortals made their nests and were easy catches in the old nights. He pointed out the temples, the strange round buildings that were called Hives, where the rituals of the Myrrydanai often took place, far from the prying eyes of the rulers of the New Kingdom. “Ghorien and his priests sacrificed vampyres—a blasphemy and a threat to us all. There were rumors of the calling up of Medhya then, but I did not believe it until I felt her presence. They hold the keys of necromancy, those Myrrydanai. It is their greatest sorcery to know the secrets of the dead and those beyond the Veil. This was in the days before she tore their flesh from them. Before she brought them into shade.”

Then, as he spoke, nearly idly, his eyes widened, and he pointed off in the distance. “Look there, where the light falls from above—do you see it? Her palace. Magnificent in those nights. There. There, my brother!”

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