Morgain's Revenge (2009)
“Ailis’s memory failed her for a moment. Then the voice she had come to depend upon rose up from inside her and supplied the answer. “Grave dust to fill the air,” she finished triumphantly as she meandered through a new hallway.
“So.”
A voice came from out of the shadows, before the speaker came into view, scaring all thoughts of spell-work out of her mind completely. Ailis had heard the ladies-in-waiting speak of their blood running cold, but she had dismissed it as foolishness; the overreaction of women who didn’t understand fear or fright.
She would have whispered an apology for underestimating them, if she could have found enough moisture in her mouth to form the words.
“So, you are the girl who has interested our hostess, distracted her from that which she must be doing. This costs me time, that I must be here, and not elsewhere.”
The speaker stood directly in front of her, but Ailis could not have said what she looked like, or if, in fact, she was indeed female. The voice was a s...trange whisper, as genderless as the wind, and the body… Ailis could not have focused her gaze on the figure even if she had wanted to.MoreLess
“So.”
A voice came from out of the shadows, before the speaker came into view, scaring all thoughts of spell-work out of her mind completely. Ailis had heard the ladies-in-waiting speak of their blood running cold, but she had dismissed it as foolishness; the overreaction of women who didn’t understand fear or fright.
She would have whispered an apology for underestimating them, if she could have found enough moisture in her mouth to form the words.
“So, you are the girl who has interested our hostess, distracted her from that which she must be doing. This costs me time, that I must be here, and not elsewhere.”
The speaker stood directly in front of her, but Ailis could not have said what she looked like, or if, in fact, she was indeed female. The voice was a s...trange whisper, as genderless as the wind, and the body… Ailis could not have focused her gaze on the figure even if she had wanted to.MoreLess
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