Fate of the Light by Christine Dela Cruz Tomas

Author:Christine Dela Cruz Tomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co.

CHAPTER EIGHT

REUNION

Lorac looked at the wild looking young man, with blood caked face, grimy and torn clothes, brandishing xuntar, and equally strange looking blank eyed young woman who hovered above the ground and asked himself what he had come upon this time.

And then the wild man took a look at the princess and grew still. Upon closer look at the man, Lorac came to understand.

“Your majesty, this is your long lost sister,” he said gently.

Lorac did not know what had come to pass with the Light people during all the time that the princess was in the egg. From the look of it, it had not been good. The castle looked dilapidated. The King looked like he had not had a good meal in years and had just gone to war and lost. The strange creature at his side kept cringing at the hand that was gripping her wrist.

But the King’s eyes narrowed with an intelligence that belied his clothes and appearance. “The prophecy...the third child...is a female...”

Lorac nodded. He looked around and drew the group of four inside the doorway hurriedly and struggled to close the big creaking front doors. “It is only a matter of time now before he finds out.”

“If he does not yet,” the King replied. “We must plan. Come.”

* * *

The strange creature with wings had furnished us with some meat he had ensnared and I had done some peremptory cleaning in the pantry where we had gathered to eat a midday meal. I dared not clean the dining hall for it would have taken several days.

I embellished him and my new found sister, the long lost princess and savior of my people, with the sad stories of the past years and the sadder story still of the ambush that was triumphant at first and then miserably failing at the moment. I tried not to look at the small slumped figure beside me at the table. I could not blame her. She was frightened of her father and she had known better than to disobey him.

The meat tasted quite well and I had not had the heart to ask what kind it was. The creature named Lorac was himself eating leaves from the courtyard trees outside. I knew the castle in its present decrepit state was full of rodents but I thought it better to merely enjoy anything to eat.

The strange creature called Lorac then began telling me about their travels. As he recounted how he had come upon my sister in a giant nest egg and then how she had manifested powers of sorcery during the journey. I looked upon her, trying to imagine how she might fulfill the prophecy that bound everyone’s fate. My moment of surprise at our initial acquaintance had given way to a small bout of sentimentality. I was in no doubt of her kinship to me. It was like looking into a mirror.

I leaned forward. “Now, tell me more of these Vetches you have encountered during your journey.”

Lorac’s eyes sharpened and he smiled.

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