Legacy of Light by C D Tavenor

Author:C D Tavenor [Tavenor, C D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733836180
Publisher: Two Doctors Media Collaborative, LLC
Published: 2019-12-02T22:00:00+00:00

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Ero tills the soil of his garden. Ermo plays in the dirt, building mounds into castles. She’s so beautiful, and Ero wishes Mono could've seen what she’d look like once grown. Their daughter deserves a better life.

“Dad, what’s father doing right now?” Ermo says.

Ero looks to the sky, seeing the sun reach mid-day. The night’s rain clouds have already disappeared. If Mono’s predictions about the battle are correct, then they’d be commencing the fight just about now.

“Well, I imagine he’s telling his troops the Prophecy, their Rite of War, as he calls it.”

“The one he recites every night?”

Ero digs at the soil with the hoe. “Yes, you know how it goes.” Satisfied, he drops a seed into the new hole.

Looking up from her dirt castles, she says, “In the final hour of our people, I will return to fight by your side. I will stand beside you, before you, above you, beneath you, and behind you. When all hope has lost, regain it, for I will smite the stones that block your path, rend the rivers that oppose you, and return peace to the land of our people.”

Ero smiles. “You’ll make a wonderful teacher someday. Do you know the next verse?”

“No, father never said it.”

“It’s not a verse for the warriors. It’s a verse for the people.”

“What’s it say?”

Resting the hoe against the side of the house, Ero sits in the dirt next to his daughter. “So says our Lord. We fight for him as he fought for us. We fight for our love as he fought for us. We fight for Lethotar as he fought for us.” He pauses. “This is the part most forget: And when I return to your side, my sacrifice will usher in a new age. A Daughter of the Lord will rise to the throne, and no longer will the world know us as the accursed ones. No longer will they know us as the orcs. They will know us as the People of Light, our true form. The People of Peace. The People of Love.”

“I don’t get it.” She returns to her dirt castles.

Drumbeats resound through the streets far below their cliffside home, and Ero recognizes their meaning. Their double meaning. Their Commander has fallen, but the Fifth Legion returns, victorious. He looks toward his daughter. Their daughter. The Lord of Light’s daughter. “Love, I’ve never understood until today.”

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