Mirror 04 The Way Between the Worlds by Ian Irvine

Author:Ian Irvine [Irvine, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ian Irvine
Published: 2010-09-29T13:50:44.857000+00:00

He snatched at Yggur's cloak. Yggur raised his fist. For a moment it seemed that violence would be done right there, then the door slammed open and Maigraith swayed through, looking as though all the blood had been sucked from her veins. Into the sudden silence she dropped her bombshell. 'I have been to Elludore through a gate,' she said. 'Faelamor is on the way to Shazmak to make alliance with Rulke. She has made her own device, from the gold of the golden flute.' The silence was deafening. Still no one spoke, though their faces bore identical expressions of horror. 'How do you know?' barked Mendark. Maigraith pulled the drawings from her pocket and threw them on the table. Llian examined them carefully. 'These are the ones stolen from the college library. Look! This one shows Yalkara going into the burning tower after the golden flute was destroyed. She's not wearing her golden jewelry.' The second sketch showed Yalkara coming out of Huling's Tower again, a small figure in a large drawing. Smoke hung above the tower like an upraised fist. Her clothes were smoking, her hands blood-red, and she wore the golden chain about her throat again, the torc about her forehead, and the bracelet on her wrist. Llian looked as if a divine truth had been revealed. 'Yalkara must have used some magic to forge the molten gold into a perfect replica of the jewelry that she always wore, and worn it out of the ruins under the noses of all the watchers. How bold she was!' 'She would never say how her hands came to be so badly scarred,' said Shand. 'It must have happened in her haste to shape the gold.' 'I felt it!' said Maigraith. 'When Shand and I went to Huling's Tower. It was horrible!' 'One of them will betray the other and emerge stronger than ever,' said Yggur in a defeated voice. 'We're notyet beaten,' Mendark's voice rang out. 'Desperate times call for desperate remedies: the forbidden, the uncontrollable! Let those of us who know such secrets meet secretly to work out a plan.' Maigraith told no one what she was going through. She had made her decision and no one was going to talk her out of it. She felt divorced from the company, her friends, even Shand. Her wound was very painful and she felt worse as the day went on. After the meeting she went back to bed, but had a strange, fitful slumber, punctuated not by dreams but by a waking state rather like a trance, in which she got up as soon as Karan went out and packed everything that would be needed for a long journey. Knowing Karan was keeping an eye on her, she planned to slip away the first chance she got. Maigraith hid her pack, slipped back into bed and slept soundly. After midnight she woke and the aftersickness was gone. Karan was folded up in the armchair by the fire, dozing, but woke as soon as Maigraith stirred.

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