The divine queen, p.37
The Divine Queen, page 37
part #2 of Doom-Quest of Ara-Karn Series
He looked at them for a moment as if he were minded to tell them. Within the hollow circles of his eyes were darkness and space and the sparks of an echoing horror – the black darkness of the Darklands, where Estar Kane led the savage Madpriests – the unbounded space of the desolate Marches this side of the knife-edged border – the fiery horror of the ruins of this, the finest city known to man. Half he had opened his lips, but then he shut them and shook his head.
He stepped down off the parapet and mounted the steps of the battlements, easily, like a man long seasons absent, returned at last to a home he scarcely knows; he looks about him puzzled, making the effort to marry his memories with what his eyes perceive. So this one, as he answered the guardsmen’s question quietly, in sadness and disgust and a deep, pitiless weariness.
‘I am Ennius Kandi, Charan of Elsvar in Gerso and of Danel in Ul Raambar.’
So it was that Ara-Karn returned to the Citadel of Elna, as he had promised his mistress that he would.
Adam Corby, The Divine Queen
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He stepped down off the parapet and mounted the steps of the battlements, easily, like a man long seasons absent, returned at last to a home he scarcely knows; he looks about him puzzled, making the effort to marry his memories with what his eyes perceive. So this one, as he answered the guardsmen’s question quietly, in sadness and disgust and a deep, pitiless weariness.
‘I am Ennius Kandi, Charan of Elsvar in Gerso and of Danel in Ul Raambar.’
So it was that Ara-Karn returned to the Citadel of Elna, as he had promised his mistress that he would.
Adam Corby, The Divine Queen
