The riddle-master of Hed: fantasy by Patricia A. McKillip

Author:Patricia A. McKillip [McKillip, Patricia]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science fiction, Fiction, Fiction in English, English fiction
ISBN: 9780283985799
Publisher: Sidgwick and Jackson
Published: 2010-01-21T15:52:06+00:00

Morgon opened his eyes. The darkness and the red, panting embers whirled around him until the darkness rose about his face like a tide, and the fire seemed tiny, far away. In the well of night he saw Hed drifting like a broken ship in the sea; he heard the vine leaves whispering drily, felt in his veins the rivers slowing, thickening, draining dry, their beds cracking to the harpist’s weave. He made a harsh, incredulous noise, and saw the harpist finally, beyond the fire, his harp made of strange bones and polished shell, his face lost in shadows. The face seemed to lift a little at Morgon’s voice; he caught a flick of fire-scorched gold.

Dry, dust dry, the earth

the earth of you, land-ruler

lord of the dying. Parching the fields

of your body, moaning the wind

of your last word

across the waste of them,

the wasteland of Hed.

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