Beyond the Blue Moon-Hawk And Fisher 07 by Simon R. Green

Author:Simon R. Green [Green, Simon R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Fisher (Fictitious character : Green), Hawk (Fictitious character : Green)
ISBN: 9780451458056
Publisher: Roc
Published: 2000-11-07T08:00:00+00:00

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Felicity drew heavily on her cigarette and looked moodily off into the distance.

"You

want to know how I felt about Harald, don't you? Well, I'm not sure I know even now.

Harald wasn't an easy man to get to know. He had different faces for everyone. We liked

each other well enough, I suppose. Argued morning, noon, and night, but that was just

our way of communicating. And he was damn good in bed. When he was around. I used to think he had lovers, God knows I did, but if so he had them even better hidden than

me. But I think he was more interested in being King and consolidating his power than he

ever was in being my husband."

"All those years you were married," Hawk said carefully. "You only ever had the one child. You mentioned abortions earlier…"

"We only had the one child because Harald wasn't around often enough to manage more than one," said Felicity tartly. "And with anyone else I was always damned careful to use

the right protective spells. A girl can't be too careful when she's Queen. And, yes, Stephen is very definitely Harald's son. He insisted on all kinds of magical tests, in

private, to make sure of that. I didn't really want an heir, but I knew it was expected of

me. Part of the job. And I'm fond enough of him now he's here. I'll tell you this for free:

I'd kill anyone who tried to take him away from me."

They watched the small child for a while, still playing solemnly with his colored bricks.

Hawk looked at the boy closely, trying to see some of his brother or the Forest line in the

child, but the boy was just a boy to him. He looked back at Felicity.

"Who do you think killed Harald?"

The Queen started to laugh, and coughed suddenly on cigarette smoke. "I'm spoiled for

choice, darling. He had a hell of a lot of enemies, most of them made on purpose.

Either

you supported the King in everything you thought and said and did, or you were his enemy. He could be charming and persuasive enough when he had to be, and he could make political deals with the best of them when his back was forced to the wall over some important issue… but he never forgot and he never forgave. He wouldn't delegate any of his power, either. Everything had to go through him, even when it drowned him in

paperwork. Give him his due, he was always good at that side of things. No one ever got

anything past him. But if you want suspects…

"I'd have to put the Magus at the top of the list. No one trusts him. Then there's the

Shaman. Crazy old bastard, and bitter and twisted with it. Spends half his time calling for

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