Master of Ecstasy by Nina Bangs

Author:Nina Bangs [Bangs, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"What happened? How did it get so dark?" Blythe brushed her hair away from her face as the wind whipped it in every direction.

Darach allowed himself a brief smile, a smile he knew she could not see. "Ganymede thinks to make things more comfortable for me so that I can save him from embarrassment." And though Darach would not wish to admit it, he was thankful for the help. It had been many years since he had ventured out on even the darkest of days. He had forgotten the pain.

Darach leaped onto the top of the battlements, ignoring Blythe's gasp.

"Be careful." Her voice was filled with worry. For him.

Had anyone worried about him in five hundred years? He did not think so. He tried to resist a rush of warm feelings for her.

She wanted him safe so that he could save her. Given a chance, she would have used her weapon on him. And she only wished him to be happy so that she would not have to return to Casperwyoming. There, he had hardened his heart against her. Ye lie to yourself.

"Why do you have to stand on the wall to do whatever you're going to do?" Her words were swept away on the wind.

"Be still. I must find a worthy fear, and I canna concentrate with ye blathering." He would not tell her that he stood on the wall so she could not see his face.

"Sheesh, what a grouch. And I don't blather."

He smiled at her outraged mumbling behind him, the slide of his lips over his fangs reminding him of what he now was and why she must not see his face while he did this.

Darach stood perfectly still, sliding in and out of the many minds below him. He was hardly aware when the first man saw him and pointed. He cared nothing for the superstitious fears of demons and harbingers of death that flooded their minds. He looked for a deeper terror, one strong enough to become a true physical presence.

The fearful murmurs rose to him, swirled around him. Where was the one fear he searched for?

A man's shout drew Darach's attention to him. "Dinna stop now," the man cried. "We are almost past the gate. The one who stands on the wall above ye might well be the same one who killed your friends and relatives. When I carve out his heart and hold it high for all to see, ye'll know that he was only a man."

Darach smiled as he gazed down upon the blusterer. The innkeeper. The man who felt that women should stay at home. Mayhap the innkeeper would soon wish that he, too, had remained at home, because Darach had found the fear for which he searched.

Closing his eyes, he called five hundred years of power to him, centered it in his mind's eye, and made the man's fear flesh and blood. And as the unspeakable power that only he could wield coursed through him, Darach placed his hand over his heart.

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