The Phoenix Transformed by James Mallory

Author:James Mallory [Mallory, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, General, Fiction, Fantasy - General, American Science Fiction And Fantasy, Fiction - Fantasy
ISBN: 9780765355089
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Published: 2009-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

IT was hard to do. Most of it was things Tiercel didn’t know he knew until Harrier asked him—and then the information was there, in his mind, as clear and sharp as if he’d been told. Not images, and not memories, but certainties.

Were the Barantar dead? Not yet—except for Sathan—but they’d been captured. The Binrazan and the Thanduli were still free. The Thanduli were still at the last campsite. The Binrazan had already headed eastward.

“Why didn’t she just kill them all?” Harrier asked.

“She wants—She wants—I don’t know! I don’t know!” It wasn’t true. Tiercel did know. He could feel the shape of the knowledge inside his mind. He just couldn’t imagine any way to make it into words. “She wants . . . a thing,” Tiercel said more quietly. “I can’t describe it. Something. Something she wants. Har, you have to . . . I’m still linked to her, I know I am!”

“When you figure out how to cast a Healing Spell so Saravasse can fly again, I’ll think about killing you, not before,” Harrier said bluntly. “You might be linked to Ahairan and you might not be. What you aren’t, is Tainted. As for linked, if you are, that’s the first luck we’ve had.”

“You’ve been out in the sun much too long,” Tiercel said slowly, and Harrier grinned at him wolfishly.

“Think about it. She already knows where we are, so a link doesn’t do her any good. But a link would tell us what she’s doing. Maybe that will help.”

“You mean I’m some use after all?” Tiercel said. He hadn’t meant to blurt that out—hearing him feeling sorry for himself was the last thing Harrier needed right now. But he was tired, and the few hours of sleep he’d managed to snatch in the past two days had been filled with a Demon’s thoughts, and his every waking moment had been filled with death, Shamblers, and his own whipsawed emotions.

“You’re the Anointed Champion of the Light,” Harrier said with utter seriousness. “Never think you’re useless, Tyr. Never.”

Light deliver us, he really believes that, Tiercel thought in shock. Maybe he’s crazy after all.

But the gravity of the moment was shattered by Harrier’s next words. “Besides, you keep Liapha from hitting me too often. She likes you. Now come on. Let’s get some sleep.”

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