Hall of the Mountain King
“It was an unholy hour to be out of bed: the black watch of the night when men most often died, and demons walked, and Uveryen defied her bright brother to overcome her power.
He was ghastly cold, sitting in the king’s antechamber, waiting on the royal pleasure. With the sublime illogic of the half-asleep, he did not fear for life or limb. He fretted over his baggage. Should he have packed one more warm cloak? Or one less? Had he forgotten something vital?
Mirain’s armor—was it— “My lord will se...e you now.”
The quiet words brought him lurching to his feet. They tangled. He sorted them with vicious patience, under the servant’s cool eye. In some semblance of good order, he entered the lion’s den.
The king was as the king always was, broad awake, fully clad, and somehow not quite human. Like a man in armor, warded against the world; but this one’s armor was his own flesh and bone.
Vadin, bowing at his feet, wondered if he had always been like that. An iron king, ruling with an iron will, loving nothing that lived.MoreLess
He was ghastly cold, sitting in the king’s antechamber, waiting on the royal pleasure. With the sublime illogic of the half-asleep, he did not fear for life or limb. He fretted over his baggage. Should he have packed one more warm cloak? Or one less? Had he forgotten something vital?
Mirain’s armor—was it— “My lord will se...e you now.”
The quiet words brought him lurching to his feet. They tangled. He sorted them with vicious patience, under the servant’s cool eye. In some semblance of good order, he entered the lion’s den.
The king was as the king always was, broad awake, fully clad, and somehow not quite human. Like a man in armor, warded against the world; but this one’s armor was his own flesh and bone.
Vadin, bowing at his feet, wondered if he had always been like that. An iron king, ruling with an iron will, loving nothing that lived.MoreLess
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