Wyvern by A. A. Attanasio

Author:A. A. Attanasio [Attanasio, A. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: A. A. Attanasio
Published: 2012-01-10T23:00:00+00:00

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From far back in the wilderness of dreams, on an unfound path out of the canyon of memory, Mala chanted lines from Psalm 19: Day to day pours forth speech — and night to night declares knowledge.

When dawn came and the roll of the ship steadied to the anchored rhythms of her new moorings, the lovers confronted their future. Love had found Lucinda sometime during the stormsea crossing, and all her playfulness had sharpened to rueful need for her caring, carnal, forest-scented man. She did not want him to go, though she knew her father would kill him if he stayed. Jaki swore to return to Singapore at the next new moon, after he had warned his comrades and they had made their way to safety.

"I will come back," he said with his face in the heady fragrance of her gold-shadowed hair, "and this time never leave again. I will bring my fortune with me and ask your father for your hand. We will leave Asia, and you will show me Europe. Perhaps the Alps will be our home — we will have a chateau by a lake and rear our children in happiness and teach them to cherish beauty and peace."

"You dream more than I can believe," she said sadly. "Yet I will wait for you to return." She kissed the amber ring to seal her promise, and they agreed to meet next under the dark of the moon behind the stone lion that gazed over the harbor of Singapore, the City of Lions.

He secured a rope to the window jamb and nimbly swung down to the stone slipway of the landing stage. He waved and in a moment vanished in the amulets of morning mist dangling over the harbor.

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