Grey Lore by Jean Knight Pace & Jacob Kennedy

Author:Jean Knight Pace & Jacob Kennedy [Pace, Jean Knight & Kennedy, Jacob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733255028
Published: 2019-08-05T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 39

Ella sifted through her mother’s papers, looking for a bit of inspiration for her own retelling. She’d always loved Beauty and the Beast as well as Sleeping Beauty. Rapunzel was cool, too.

But her mother just wrote wolves. Wolves, wolves, and wolves.

Once, in a land turned on its head, two sons were born to a Lord of the Silver—he who could handle the potent metal, drawing strength from it, instead of harm. The Silverlord had possessed a powerful stone, but it was not his to bear, and when the right time had come, he’d given it up to a human boy.

This stone now haunted the sons of the Silverlord—calling to them, though in different ways.

The oldest watched as his kind were driven from the land—forced back by the human queen’s penchant for silver. From the woods the oldest son gathered his kind, rousing them to action, fighting so hard for equality that he began to forget the balance of the word—too eager to tip the scales in the favor of his people, to restore them to what had been. He remembered the myths of the stone, the stories that sang of the Promise Giver—the great Sarak who had touched the stone, sacrificing himself, and leaving his mark. Because of the small power Sarak had infused into the stone, the shifters might have power to turn back the worlds, igniting their fates and changing the tide. But they would need both the stone and the Bearer.

The younger brother sought the stone for different reasons. He recognized that, though it had brought some evil, the stone had also given much good. The humans and shifters could now be equal partners. And many were—working together to build and run cities, to farm, to industrialize, marrying and bearing children. The dogs and wolves had run of the land and its bounty. And the attachment of some of the canines to the humans had grown into bonds of friendship that often lasted through generations. Thus, the younger son did not seek the stone to keep or use it, only to uphold his father’s legacy, to protect the stone and with it the stone Bearers.

Time went on. As the older hunted, the younger shielded. As the older sought out, the younger concealed. As the older rallied shifters, the younger tried to still them.

The sons grew into fathers and grandfathers. Their lineage spread. Among their progeny, few could handle the mighty silver as their father had been able to do, although occasionally one would arise among them able to touch the untouchable.

And so it is to this day. The sons of the first seek the stone—its power and ability to change the sun and with it the balance of power. While the sons of the second seek to protect the stone and the Bearers—to fulfill their duty as Silverlords, to save the humans and their own.

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