Revelyn: 1st Chronicles - When the last arrow falls by Chris Ward

Author:Chris Ward [Ward, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-12-08T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Sylvion was amazed at the quiet. She had thought that to fly high above the earth at the mercy of the elements would have been like sailing, with the wind whistling through the rigging and a motion which the body found uncomfortable at best; but the experience was nothing like this. Apart from the mighty sizzling of the fire in the cauldron which sucked in air through the several vent holes Reigin had made in its base like some animal devouring carrion, it was quiet. It was also, almost motionless. Of course she knew they were moving, for the ground far below was passing by, but if she shut her eyes she could have been standing on the floor of the Vault warmed by the cauldron fire and not here, high in the heavens. She was exhilarated beyond words.

‘We are flying Reigin.’ She shouted across to her companion. ‘I can’t believe it we are actually flying. It worked, Reigin, it worked!’

Reigin stood in his hammock which Sylvion had stitched. It came to his waist and was held, like hers, to the canopy above by four stout ropes. He held firmly to two and laughed. He did not speak for he knew that no words were to be found for such magic and cleverness. This woman, once his prisoner, now his lady; she had done this. When all hope was taken from her, alone and friendless at the very end of her life she had brought into being that which had never been seen or known, and they had escaped, they were flying! His laughter was from relief, and joy too; joy at the new life ahead whether short or long, whether they fell to earth and died, or he lived long in the service of this marvellous woman. Beyond that he could not think.

Sylvion watched him across the boiling fire. She watched him laugh and knew that it was something he had not done so easily in the past. It made her glad, for in him she had perceived a depth of character and goodness which the Wolver had not been allowed to realise. She turned back and spied the great Vault, now nothing but a dark shape on the far horizon. In the clear night air it stood silhouetted against the sky like a Gnabi vulture brooding over the plains below. The smoke from its fire was diminishing and made but a smudge in the air above it. She remembered the faces of the men below as her wonderful craft had taken flight for those first few moments; the shock and fear, and the unbridled loathing and terror on the face of Captain Bach. In the instant that their eyes had met she knew as he did, in a moment of sudden realisation, that their positions had suddenly changed about, and he was now the Vault’s new prisoner, and she was free. Free to fly away into a new life.

Sylvion started to laugh as well, and together with

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