Wayfarer Redemption #03 - Crusader by Sara Douglass

Author:Sara Douglass [Douglass, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Fantasy, Epic, Fiction, General
ISBN: 0765315181
Google: 1XKedHNfMlUC
Amazon: B001G7RC3O
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 1999-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Both the frigid night air and time itself had closed in about Spiredore. Demons ringed it, whispering and shrieking of death, but Spiredore was made of stronger stuff than Sigholt had been, and it caused the Demons even greater angst.

Here again Roxiah stood with its head thrown back and arms and legs spread wide, bringing to bear all the power of the Enemy that it could upon the obstinate tower.

But Spiredore was holding out: grimly, painfully, and using every last bit of strength and resistance it had.

Spiredore had one more task to do, and it prayed and begged that it could do it soon.

DragonStar looked up as he finished, his face ashen. "We have almost no time!"

"What is happening," Dare Wing said.

"The Demons are laying siege to Spiredore, trying to destroy it... and you need to use its power to transport yourselves to —"

"Gods!" Dare Wing and Goldman rose as one, the women not far behind them.

"DragonStar," Faraday said, taking his arm. "Leagh ... I am so concerned for her ... she is not far away from birth, and —"

He stopped her words with a finger to her lip. "Leagh is a strong and determined women — and weren't you, when you planted out Minstrelsea while carrying Isfrael? Faraday, I can watch over her."

Faraday nodded, accepting, although she did not like the situation, nor envy Leagh her aloneness with whatever she met at Ferabrake Lake.

No, DragonStar whispered in her mind. Faraday, be still, and trust and believe in Leagh.

Again she nodded, and, as did Gwendylyr, Leagh and Goldman, withdrew her folded doorway from a pocket in her robe.

"The Strike Force?" DareWing said.

"I will command them for the moment," DragonStar said. "They are mobile enough without Spiredore."

"And you?" Goldman asked. "How will you travel about once Spiredore is gone?"

DragonStar grinned. "I have my Star Stallion," he replied, "and he is as effective as Spiredore for travelling about Tencendor itself ... and less vulnerable."

The worried look reappeared over his face. "Quick! Quick!"

Then DragonStar turned his head to one side and gave a piercing whistle.

The feathered lizard bounded out from the pack of Alaunt, grinning from ear to ear as if it had been summoned for a game of hide and chase.

Goldman and DareWing looked at him, and smiled.

"Share!" Qeteb whispered in Roxiah's ear. "Share the Enemy's power with me, and together we can tumble this tower to the ground!"

He rested a splayed, hammer-fingered hand on Roxiah's belly, and pressed.

Roxiah considered this request. It knew it was a good idea so far as demolishing Spiredore was concerned, but to share this new-found power with Qeteb? What if Qeteb did not want to give it back?

"Share!" Qeteb whispered, and dug his fingers in a little.

Roxiah trembled and, fearing for the life in its womb, shared.

Qeteb shuddered as the strange power thudded through him, then he leaned his head back and laughed.

"Spiredore! I have you!"

"Quick! Quick!" DragonStar almost pushed the other five towards the glowing doors. "Fast!"

DareWing and Goldman stepped through, the lizard bounding after them, and their doorway folded closed.

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