Daughter of Ancients by Carol Berg

Daughter of Ancients by Carol Berg

Author:Carol Berg [Berg, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epic, Fantasy, Fiction
ISBN: 9781101118108
Google: 2jUrb_m7NfcC
Amazon: B0072Q4CZ4
Publisher: Roc
Published: 2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


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DAUGHTER OF ANCIENTS

then he was not only the voice who had warned me off, but the one who had been chained in that corner bleeding. I couldn't bear the thought of that.

"I've sworn to protect you, my lady," said Paulo. "Let me find out what she's done."

Lady Seriana—so I'd discovered was her name, not Eda as my father had known her—squeezed the blood-stiffened leather in her hand. She was having to work at staying calm. "You must have a story as to how you come to carry my son's gloves marked with such stains as these." I opened my mouth, but she didn't give me an opening. "Don't try to deny they're his. I gave them to him, and their maker lives a very long way from here."

Paulo, angry as he was, wasn't going to move without her approval. Taking advantage of his restraint, I jumped to my feet and tried to recapture some dignity. I straightened my muddy tunic and brushed away the damp leaves stuck to my cheek. Paulo came near attacking me again when I touched the leather belt that held my knife sheath, but I just looked him straight in the eye and pulled it around straight. But I kept my hands well away from the hilt that protruded from the sheath. I wanted to demonstrate that they didn't intimidate me, but I wasn't stupid.

"I've no cause to explain myself to you or to anyone," I said. "I've stolen nothing and harmed no one. Unlike others you know." Why were they all so tall? My head was on a level with Paulo's shoulder. Even the two women gave me a full handspan in height.

"Did you attack Gerick in Gaelie?" asked the lady.

"Yes. I saw a Lord of Zhev'Na walking free. Any faithful daughter of Gondai would have done the same."

"But you let him go," she added. "Your father, Gerick said, a resident of the Lady's hospice persuaded you to leave him be."

So he hadn't told his mother who Papa was. I wasn't sure what that meant. "My father is the kindest, most trusting of souls. Far too trusting. I honored his speaking because he is my father, but I don't... didn't... agree."

"So if you didn't harm my son this time, and you don't wish to tell us anything, then why did you come here? Presumably not to harm Mistress Aimee."

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And, of course, that was the difficult question. Part of me wanted to spit at these people, willing dupes of a fiend. Part of me still wept at the cry I had heard, shaken to my very bones by despair that spoke the death of love and joy. Part of me trembled in fear, craving to deny my father's certainty that these events signaled something far larger than we knew.



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