Warstalker's Track (2016)
“They were set close together in the eastern corner of the tower he’d chosen for his suite, but neither opened on the World Without; not as it was, anyway. For the openings were glazed with a mesh of clear glass and mirrors, milky-clear panes, and stained (kin to the apparatus Arawn used at that very moment, had he known). Usually they made pictures of their own devising, but now they filled another function entirely.
Now they sought out threat.
Not threat to him, however; a room’s worth of wind...ows couldn’t display all those now, and he rather relished that notion. Rather, these windows showed threat to the Land itself. And while Turinne knew his own mind well enough to know that Kingship had its own enticements, this whole elaborate plot had at its heart a true and abiding love for the Land that had nothing to do with any ulterior cause.
Mortals were threatening it—Tir-Nan-Og first, but the other realms in time—and that threat, while unintentioned, was insidious. Men fought wars and men died, but the Land was always there after, sometimes injured but always recoverable.MoreLess
Now they sought out threat.
Not threat to him, however; a room’s worth of wind...ows couldn’t display all those now, and he rather relished that notion. Rather, these windows showed threat to the Land itself. And while Turinne knew his own mind well enough to know that Kingship had its own enticements, this whole elaborate plot had at its heart a true and abiding love for the Land that had nothing to do with any ulterior cause.
Mortals were threatening it—Tir-Nan-Og first, but the other realms in time—and that threat, while unintentioned, was insidious. Men fought wars and men died, but the Land was always there after, sometimes injured but always recoverable.MoreLess
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