The Three Feathers - The Magnificent Journey of Joshua Aylong by Bolz Stefan

Author:Bolz, Stefan [Bolz, Stefan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beacon Books
Published: 2013-12-14T18:30:00+00:00

14. DARKNESS

Deep inside the Ice Forest, high up in a tree, under the dark covers of the night she woke. Her cold dead eyes scanned the darkness around her. Her partially decomposed, disease riddled body held the stench of death and decay. Just before she woke, she had a dream of a large cave and of three feathers that lay on a blackened stone deep inside a mountain. In her dream she saw the rooster and she knew that she could not let him find what he was looking for. Something stirred deep within her and whatever it was it brought her back to the living enough to escape death for a while longer.

“Feed on the dead,” the darkness whispered. “And make me an army worthy of what I am.”

She pushed off the branch, circling the air. Her massive wings easily spanned twelve yards; her talons could hold a grown wolf in them and carry him up into the air so she could feed on him in mid flight. The Griffon Vulture set course toward Hollow’s Gate. She flew fast, close to the tip of the trees and her cries were heard far into the forest and every beast was reminded how close it was to death, how easily its little life could be snapped from it.

She flew for ten days and ten nights and at dawn of the eleventh day she reached Hollow’s Gate from the south east. From high above she saw the rooster and the wolf fall into the deep. She watched the war horse and the Pegasus escape from the crumbling path and witnessed the sky people floating up within the light beam. Her eyes blinded by it, she withdrew and watched the Pegasus and the horse from high up in a tree. And when the war horse jumped off the cliff, she followed him. As he disappeared into the Gate of Time, she hovered there and within the darkness of Time’s Gate where past and future were there with her, she clearly saw the end of the Rooster in her mind. She saw the Pegasus as she hung held by hundreds of thin threads above a black abyss; she saw the wolf fight for the rooster’s life and she saw the war horse fall from high above, inside the mountain, paralyzed by the deep festering cuts of her talons and wounds from her beak. She saw it all and knew the certain outcome of her task. And she was content.

When she flew out of the blackness, gliding through the air high above Hollow’s Gate, she heard the eagle’s cry close to the Wall. Ayres, the Guardian of the Gate came toward her. His speed could match hers. His size could not. She killed him instantly, her beak feeding on his flesh before she dropped his remains into the deep. She landed eventually at the bottom of the waterfall, close to where Joshua and the Wolf had been only a few days past. The hyenas, six

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