Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling

Author:Lynn Flewelling [Flewelling, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-77500-9
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2010-11-09T18:30:00+00:00

The stars stood out like glittering eyes against the midnight vault of the sky.

Standing beside Mardus on the beach, Ashnazai could hear Tildus’ men moving through the trees that fringed the little cove, and the nicker of the horses that were tethered, ready for the night’s ride. Other men patrolled the woods beyond the gully where an unlucky peddler lay face down in a brackish pool of water. There would be no witnesses.

They hadn’t been waiting long when a black presence suddenly coalesced out of the darkness in front of them.

Ashnazai bowed gravely to the dra’gorgos.

“We will be with you presently,” it announced in its hollow, wind-filled voice.

“All is prepared,” Mardus replied. “We await you here.”

Soon the light splash of oars came to them from across the water. Tildus and his men tensed, weapons drawn, as the black outline of a longboat came into view. Two sailors pulled the oars, while their two passengers sat motionless in the bow.

Reaching shore, one of the oarsmen jumped out and pulled the prow up onto the beach so that his passengers could disembark dry shod. The first to climb out was the gaunt, grey-beaded necromancer, Harid Yordun.

“Welcome, my brother,” Ashnazai said, clasping hands with him, “and to Irtuk Beshar, our most esteemed lady.”

Yordun gave a terse nod, then lifted his companion out onto the shore. Silent and invisible behind her thick veils, Irtuk Beshar extended a leathery, blackened hand in benediction.

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