Demon Child #01 - Medalon by Jennifer Fallon

Author:Jennifer Fallon [Fallon, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, General, Provided by pisces_abhi, The Demon Child Trilogy; Medalon; Jennifer Fallon
ISBN: 9780765348661
Google: gqt-PwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0765348667
Publisher: Paw Prints
Published: 2000-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

“I have a confession to make, Sisters,” she began, with a sigh that was filled with remorse. “I have made a dreadful mistake. I fear I did something that seemed right at the time but that I now regret.”

“Surely if your actions seemed right at the time,” the ever faithful Jacomina said comfortingly, “you cannot blame yourself.”

Harith was less than sympathetic. “Just exactly what have you done, Joyhinia?”

“I gave birth to a child,” she said, taking a seat beside Jacomina, who placed a comforting hand over Joyhinia"s clasped fingers, “who should have been an icon. His upbringing was exemplary, his pedigree faultless, yet I suspected the bad blood in him. I had him placed in the Defenders at the youngest age they would take him, in the hope that the discipline of the Corps would somehow triumph over his character.

We all know now how idle that hope was.”

“You mustn"t blame yourself, Joyhinia,” Louhina added, right on cue. The Mistress of the Interior was her mother"s creature to the core, just like Jacomina.

“And the mistake?” Harith asked. “Get to the point, Sister.”

“My mistake was wanting a child of whom I could be proud. When I left for Testra nearly twenty-one years ago, I volunteered to visit the outlying settlements in the mountains. I wintered in a village called Haven,” Joyhinia said, her eyes downcast.

“It was a small, backward hamlet. While I was there, a young woman gave birth to a child, but refused to name the father. The poor girl died within hours of giving birth, leaving a child that nobody would claim. I took pity on the babe and offered to take it, to raise it as my own, to give it every chance to have a decent life. The villagers were glad to be rid of it. They must have known something about the mother that I did not.”

Joyhinia glanced at her Quorum, judging their reactions. Joyhinia"s story fascinated R"shiel. This was finally the truth—finally she would have the answers she had come here to seek.

“I took the child back to Testra with me and claimed the child as my own. I was wrong to let people think that, I know. But once again, I must plead youth and pride as my excuses. My mistake was thinking that my love and guidance could overcome her bad blood. This young woman you see before you now, is the result of my foolishness, my weakness.” Joyhinia looked up at R"shiel. She actually had tears in her eyes. “This girl who has betrayed us all so badly is the result of my folly. Perhaps I loved her too much. Perhaps I was too lenient with her. My son had been such a disappointment to me that I put all my hopes in a foundling. And now she repays my kindness by turning on us in our most desperate hour.” Harith frowned as she looked at R"shiel. “I always wondered what Tarja was talking about when he faced you down at the Gathering.

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