The Kingdom of the Lost: Book 4: The Velvet City by Isobelle Carmody

Author:Isobelle Carmody [Carmody, Isobelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Tulk’s smoky eyes widened but the Nightbeast stirred and perhaps she spoke, for he leapt to the ground and she rose to her feet. Casting her eyes over the Monks, she uttered a low purring growl that seemed at once a warning and a farewell. Then she turned with a swish of her long tail and padded around the Long Pool towards the gap between the ice peaks.

The air turned frigid when they entered the pass. Glad of his hot vest, Bily turned back to catch one last glimpse of Finnla, and Ishla and Tulk, and the other monks that had come to farewell them. Then the Nightbeast gathered herself and broke into a loping run that carried them swiftly beyond the pass onto the narrow spit that was the endmost tip of the Hidden Place. As she bounded into the teeth of a wind, it grew savagely cold. Fortunately, the blizzard was fading, so there were only a few ice flecks and coldwhites in the wind, but still, Bily pushed his hands deep into the Nightbeast’s mane and lay his face down. It was not until the Nightbeast leapt from the spit onto the ice that covered the sea that he looked up again and saw the black passage of water she swam in regularly all through the Longful Night to keep it from freezing. Bily knew from Finnla that the she Monks would sail in a multitude of little vessels along this to the mainland for the tithe muster. But for now, the Nightbeast glided over the thick ice alongside the black stream. It was so cold their breaths came out in puffs of cloud and Bily worried about the Monster.

‘The Broken Prince is so deeply asleep that it will take time before cold or hunger or thirst reach him,’ the Nightbeast said, inside his mind.

Bily was relieved. He envied Zest, who had wriggled under his hot vest. Although his chest and back and shoulders were warm, his face and hands stung with the fierce cold. It was impossible to imagine he would soon be bathed in sunlight and surrounded by green and growing things, and yet the Nightbeast had told him as much when he had gone to ask if she could take him as well as the Monster. The knowledge that he was moving towards the sunlight and a world of growing plants and flowers ached his heart as much as it pleased him, for with each step, he was leaving Zluty further behind. But he comforted himself with what the Monster had said about Zluty never letting anything keep them apart for long.

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