The Widow and the King by John Dickinson

Author:John Dickinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307549327
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2005-11-12T22:00:00+00:00

Ambrose stood his ground in the angle of the upper courtyard, and looked where Sophia had been. Just out of the centre of his vision was a figure in a grey robe and hood. Somewhere in Ambrose's head a voice was screaming.

It was the Heron Man, standing there. Ambrose had an impression of a pinched nose, and deep lines on the face under the hood. That skin must be dry, like paper if he touched it. He could not see the eyes …

But he could feel them.

They were deep, like pits. They bore on him with the weight of years run dry of all weeping. They were tired, dull, listless, as if all the malice of the Heron Man was only a crust upon the immense weariness within his brain. They looked at him, and they despised him. He felt like a tiny cockroach under pouring sand, drowning beneath vast sediments of time.

No! He could feel his hand on his pouch, clicking the stones again and again. The sound seemed light and very feeble.

No! Go away!

For long moments more the eyes watched him: slow, with that appalling heaviness. The mouth twitched – into a smile that mocked him.

The Heron Man turned away. In that instant Ambrose saw that his enemy was standing not in the courtyard, but in the landscape of brown stones where nothing grew. Then he vanished as he had come.

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