Lila Dubois - Zinah 01 by Forbidden (html)

Author:Forbidden (html) [Forbidden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-08T00:15:57.529000+00:00

Chapter 8

Anleeh and Sesah staggered into the Priestess’s chamber with the gray-faced Tamlohn hanging between them.

As soon as he had gotten the Prima off the field, Anleeh had grabbed Sesah and two horses and ridden hell for leather to the Temple with Tamlohn draped over the back of his horse.

The ride may have made the Prima worse, but his best hope was the Priestess.

As they staggered into the chamber, two acolytes came running up to him. Anleeh’s eyes widened in surprise. It was rare to see the acolytes in the Priestess’s apartments; they were potential successors, but the truth of her magic and what existed between her and the Zinahs was a closely guarded secret. She must have been truly weary to have called them to her.

There was already a pallet made up in the center of one of the circles inlaid in the floor of the main chamber. Staggering over to it, Anleeh and Sesah lowered their bloody burden onto the linen draped pallet, quickly stripping him of his armor, knowing the acolytes would have no idea how to get it off the big man.

One acolyte knelt near by, an anxious expression on her young face. She had dark brown hair and eyes and skin the color of ripened wheat. She wore a simple white tunic. A wide strip of embroidered fabric wrapped around her from just below her breasts to her hips. The embroidery was a series of Goddess images and runes.

The second acolyte hurried away, only to return supporting the weary Priestess. Anleeh, in the middle of unlacing one of Tamlohn’s stupidly tall boots, looked up and froze in shock. Her normally golden complexion was completely white, even her lips leached of their rose color.

She was attired like the acolytes in a long white tunic, completely open down the sides and held in place by a sash wrapped around her over and over till it resembled a girdle. She wore a crescent moon diadem on her brow.

The combination of the unfamiliar clothing and her pale face made her a stranger. The second acolyte helped her kneel down beside Tamlohn, who had slipped out of consciousness.

Just as they managed to strip him completely—Anleeh noticed with sardonic amusement that both acolytes blushed and looked away as they sliced the laces of Tamlohn’s pants and pulled them off—the door to the chamber flew open and banged against the wall. In rushed Rohaj and Moregon; clearly they had raced back to the Temple upon learning of the wounding of the Prima.

The Priestess did not even look up, her eyes running over Tamlohn’s naked form, taking in the various wounds, identifying those that were the most serious.

“Turn him over,” her voice was barely there, low and hoarse.

Sesah looked at her for the first time and started in surprise. “Priestess, what has happened?”

Much to everyone’s surprise, one of the acolytes spoke, her voice sweet as morning dew, “She used all the power she called, and all the power she had, and all that we could draw for her, until she started to eat into her own life force.

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