What Came From the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt

Author:Gary D. Schmidt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Social Issues, Family, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, General, Parents, Death & Dying
ISBN: 9780547612133
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2012-09-04T05:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Uprising

So the Lord Mondus sent the O’Mondim to hunt through the City of the Ethelim until Young Waeglim was found—alive, for the heart of the Lord Mondus still yearned for the Art of the Valorim, and he would not take Young Waeglim’s life until the Chain was surely in his grip.

But Young Waeglim lay hidden in the house of Bruleath, and as the Twin Suns rose and fell, strength came back to his arms and light to his eyes and hope to his heart. And he said to Bruleath, “Now is the time to gather those who would fight for the side of the Valorim. Now is the time to remember old promises and the battles that were fought.” And Bruleath sent word to those who had stood beside the Valorim in earlier days, and to their sons and daughters. And he gave to Young Waeglim the orlu and the halin that he had used when he fought beside his father. And when Young Waeglim bound the orlu and the halin to his waist and across his shoulders, Bruleath drew back at the sight of him, so fierce did he look—and so much like Elder Waeglim in the battles they had fought together.

They waited three days while the word went abroad and the O’Mondim searched the city. Behind the gliteloit, Young Waeglim watched with glowing eyes as the Valorim banes roamed the streets and spread their fah filth. He stored his anger in his heart, and with white hands he gripped the hilt of the orlu.

Finally, on a night lit only by a slanting of stars, Young Waeglim and Bruleath and Hileath and Ealgar left their home and headed to Brogum Sorg Cynna outside the City of the Ethelim, where the O’Mondim would never come for the memory of the vengeance taken upon them. And there, the pale eyes of the Valore saw many of the Ethelim—though most weaponless. But in their eyes, Young Waeglim saw not hope but fear. And his heart was filled with pity for what they had endured.

“Is this what you have come to?” he said. “You who have fought side by side with the Valorim and taken the Reced and the city around it for your own? Is this the race that once drove the traitorous O’Mondim from the battlements, and with your own hands built up all that is good and noble around you? Did the Valorim bring their Art into the world for this?”

But they murmured against him, and asked who he was to speak so. Had he lived in the city while it was torn by the O’Mondim? Had he been starved by their hands, been beaten by their hands, lost all by their hands? And now he comes, a lord of the Valorim, safe and well?

And Ealgar’s anger was fired, and he stepped before them and spoke. He told of the Valore’s long, dark suffering. He told of the battle with Hileath against the O’Mondim. He told of how Young Waeglim

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