Mystic Rider
“He would have to hope the heavens showed him the way.
Thanking Aelynn for the gift of the horse’s motion to focus his energies, he climbed back in the saddle and struck out for the road the king’s berlin had taken.
He had met the royal party long enough to recognize their thought threads among the hundreds of others around him. Letting the stallion have his head on the open road, Ian collected the threads carried on the winds.
He recognized the queen’s unease but not the reason for it.
More disturbing was the fury building in the minds of thousands in Paris — a cloud of rage so enormous that he could sense it even from a day’s journey away.
It was late afternoon. The palace guards would have had time to discover the royal family’s escape. The alarm would have been sounded. The Assembly would be forced to send out their National Guard, if only to stop the rioting, but more to the point — to prevent the king and his loyal troops from raising arms against them. There would be messengers ...racing down every road.MoreLess
Thanking Aelynn for the gift of the horse’s motion to focus his energies, he climbed back in the saddle and struck out for the road the king’s berlin had taken.
He had met the royal party long enough to recognize their thought threads among the hundreds of others around him. Letting the stallion have his head on the open road, Ian collected the threads carried on the winds.
He recognized the queen’s unease but not the reason for it.
More disturbing was the fury building in the minds of thousands in Paris — a cloud of rage so enormous that he could sense it even from a day’s journey away.
It was late afternoon. The palace guards would have had time to discover the royal family’s escape. The alarm would have been sounded. The Assembly would be forced to send out their National Guard, if only to stop the rioting, but more to the point — to prevent the king and his loyal troops from raising arms against them. There would be messengers ...racing down every road.MoreLess
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