Black Ships (2008)
Black Ships
“Overhead the stars were shining. The tall cypress trees muttered together in the wind.“What is this place?” Neas said.“This is the place that never was,” I said. “The land where the sun has never shone, where the moon has never risen. Here we live in starlight.”“It’s beautiful,” Xandros said, and there was wonder in his voice. “It reminds me of the mountains behind Byblos, where the great cedars are.” He stumbled a little against me.Far off in the woods we heard a dove call, and then a voice. “...Xandros?”I turned.Ashterah was standing at the edge of the wood, her long skirts made of silver, her face lit with longing and surprise, as radiant as I had seen her in the Great Temple of Byblos.Xandros started.Her eyes were dark and lined with kohl, and she smiled. “Come,” she said, and with a look back over her shoulder ran into the wood.“Wait!” Xandros ran after her. “Ashterah, wait!”Neas leaped forward after him, but I caught his arm. Xandros vanished into the shadows of the trees, into the wood as though he had never been.“Why do you stop me?”MoreLess
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