[Lanen Kaelar 01] - Song in the Silence by Elizabeth Kerner

Author:Elizabeth Kerner [Kerner, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Akhor

She took in a deep breath and blew it all out at once. Very peculiar. I had to know. “What does that signify?”

She was silent a moment. “It’s called a sigh,” she said, with a kind of melancholy in her voice. “I’m not sure I can tell you just what it means, though I thought I heard one from you not so long ago. I was sitting here longing to have wings and fly, to be a—one of your Kindred, and knowing how impossible it is. It made me a little sad, in a way I can’t do anything about. Nothing too awful.”

The fire was glowing embers, bright red still and warm, but even in such a minor thing I heard the true sadness in her heart. “Forgive me, dearling, I must ask you again. You know there can be no more secrets between us. I pray you, speak to me of your sadness, and of the fear that darkened our meeting this night.”

“You’re right, it’s time.” She told me the story of Maran and Marik as Jamie had told it to her, then all that had happened since she had landed, and finished with Marik’s attempted seduction and her battle for freedom. “They were almost on us before we left, weren’t they?” she asked, her voice full of weary dread.

“If they did not see us leave I would be surprised.”

“When I go back they will take me. I’m still not sure what Marik wants, but I suspect I’ll either be killed or given up whole and alive to the Rakshasa.” She lifted her hands to cover her face. “Oh my friend, forgive me. I never meant to draw you into this struggle. It is none of yours, and now we have both broken the laws of your people.”

“Your life was in danger, was it not?”

“Yes,” she replied, certainty in her voice. “I give you my word, Akhor, if Marik’s men had caught me I would have been killed, or worse. When I go back I still will be.”

“Then it is simple enough. You will not go back.”

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