Transformation
“You look as if I’ve already killed you. Is it some enchantment?”
“Enchantment ... yes ... makes me talk wildly ... nightmares ...” I wanted to scream. To weep. To strangle someone. Curse my infernal pride. Why had I been so bent on taking his full measure? Only one trained to read souls as I had been could see the feadnach—perhaps one in a thousand even among my own people. I waved my hands before my face as if to clear away a tangle of cobwebs. “My lord, forgive anything untoward I may have sa...id in these past days. I was seeking enchantments ... to protect you ... and this is a very complex working ... and only now ... only now have I come to my senses.”
“Curse your lying tongue!” He grabbed my shoulders and shook me until my bones rattled, as if truth would fall out of my mouth and bounce onto the floor at his feet.
Perhaps he was not going to kill me, but I was saved from finding out by a shout from across the room.
“Your Highness! News! Ill news!” Mikael, the gaunt palace guard captain, was running toward us, his footsteps ringing on the sand-red tiles.MoreLess
“Enchantment ... yes ... makes me talk wildly ... nightmares ...” I wanted to scream. To weep. To strangle someone. Curse my infernal pride. Why had I been so bent on taking his full measure? Only one trained to read souls as I had been could see the feadnach—perhaps one in a thousand even among my own people. I waved my hands before my face as if to clear away a tangle of cobwebs. “My lord, forgive anything untoward I may have sa...id in these past days. I was seeking enchantments ... to protect you ... and this is a very complex working ... and only now ... only now have I come to my senses.”
“Curse your lying tongue!” He grabbed my shoulders and shook me until my bones rattled, as if truth would fall out of my mouth and bounce onto the floor at his feet.
Perhaps he was not going to kill me, but I was saved from finding out by a shout from across the room.
“Your Highness! News! Ill news!” Mikael, the gaunt palace guard captain, was running toward us, his footsteps ringing on the sand-red tiles.MoreLess
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