The Skaar Invasion (The Fall of Shannara) by Brooks Terry

Author:Brooks, Terry [Brooks, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

When Tarsha woke again, the day was dark and threatening, clouds washing across the sky and mounding up on the horizon to form huge banks. The air smelled of rain, and she could tell a storm was on the way. She lay in her bed for long moments, trying to remember what had happened to put her there. She knew she had risen at some point and gone outside, but what…

She caught herself, the memories flooding back.

Tavo.

She had gone outside when she’d heard his voice. She had tried to reason with him. She had tried and failed. He was beyond reason, and he had attacked her. Using the magic of his wishsong, he had struck out at her. He had tried to hurt her, overpowering her with the strength of his violence. She had fought back against him because he had given her no choice, but she was no match for him.

In the end, her defenses had been smashed and she had fallen, battered and broken.

And after that, nothing.

But she knew one thing for certain now. He had tried to kill her.

Yet she was still alive. It did not seem possible. She looked about with bleary, unfocused eyes. She was back in her bedroom. Clizia must have brought her here and put her to bed. The old Druid woman must have fought off Tavo or intervened to save her life. She had been quick to tell Clizia to stay out of it, that this was her battle to fight, her life and Tavo’s to reconcile.

It was a bad decision. She had clearly not been up to the task.

She wondered if it was the same day or another.

She tried to rise and couldn’t. Her limbs were leaden and her willpower sapped so completely she could not make herself move. At first, she was certain she was mistaken and this was just an aftereffect of her struggle with her brother. But several tries later she found that nothing had changed. She wanted to rise, but her body would not obey her. She was completely limp and helpless.

Her capacity for reasoning was likewise impaired, but she knew something had been done to her beyond what might have resulted from her battle with Tavo. She did not feel any pain and she could sense her body parts. She was not crippled or broken. She simply couldn’t make herself move.

Instinct nudged her into concluding that, since this wasn’t the result of something Tavo had done, Clizia must have caused it. Again, she heard Drisker speaking to her in his spirit form, warning her against the old woman, telling her she was dangerous and would use Tarsha if she could.

“Clizia,” she hissed softly, the sound barely recognizable in her ears.

Within seconds, Clizia Porse was there, entering the bedroom swiftly and taking a seat next to her on the bed. “Awake at last,” she observed with a thin smile.

“What…have you…done to me?”

The old woman shrugged one shoulder. “What I had to, to save your life. Your brother wanted to kill you, so I convinced him to spare you long enough to serve other purposes.

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