Immortalis by R.A. Salvatore

Author:R.A. Salvatore [Salvatore, R.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345464224
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2003-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

25

Missionaries

Brynn stood on the eastern wall of Dharyan-Dharielle, replaying the events of the last couple of weeks over and over in her mind. She couldn’t shake the image of Abbot Olin in Chom Deiru, nor the look upon his face—so smug, so self-assured.

So dangerous.

All of the reports that had followed Brynn home served to heighten that uneasy feeling. Bolstered by their great victory over their primary opponent, the Behrenese armies were on the march out of Jacintha. Several provinces and cities had already fallen back under the blanket of Yatol Mado Wadon and the principle city, which was what Brynn and her comrades had hoped from the beginning. But those armies were being accompanied by a large number of priests—not only Chezru, but Abellican! Many Honce-the-Bear soldiers were also filling the ranks of the “Jacintha” force, and at least one report from Dahdah Oasis claimed that it was the northmen, not the Behrenese, who were truly in command.

“You look as if you expect an attack from Jacintha at any moment,” came a familiar voice, taking Brynn from her contemplations. She turned her head to regard Pagonel as he walked up beside her at the parapet.

“Abbot Olin seems to be an ambitious man,” the woman remarked.

Pagonel nodded and stared out to the dark east.

“It is my fear that we fought not for Jacintha and Mado Wadon, but for Olin of Honce-the-Bear,” Brynn explained.

“I have heard words to that effect,” the mystic agreed.

Brynn turned on him. “What have we done?”

“We stopped Tohen Bardoh, and that bodes well for To-gai,” Pagonel reasoned. “If your old nemesis had taken Jacintha, then we would have more than us two staring out to the east, and the expectation of attack would be a near certainty, I believe. And so do you.”

“Bardoh would never have allowed the To-gai-ru to hold Dharyan-Dharielle,” Brynn agreed.

“Then you have done well, yes?”

The fact that Pagonel had turned the statement into a question alerted Brynn to the fact that he was asking her to look deeper within herself here, to examine her feelings honestly and openly. That was why she valued Pagonel’s company more than simple friendship. His calm demeanor went to the core of his rational being. His embracing of the Jhesta Tu code gave him a perfectly rational perspective on all issues, a clearheaded ability to weigh every situation in every context, large and small. When the Chezhou-Lei warriors had arrived at the Mountains of Fire, challenging the Jhesta Tu to battle, there had been little irrational emotion guiding the hand of the Jhesta Tu leaders, including Pagonel, just a simple estimate of the good and bad of it.

The Jhesta Tu were complete human beings, Brynn thought as she regarded the always-serene mystic. In Pagonel, she saw true contentment and harmony, and it was a state that she surely envied and aspired to.

“I fear that Abbot Olin has gained the upper hand over Yatol Mado Wadon,” Brynn said after a bit more reflection. “The blanket of Jacintha takes on a

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