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From Kings of the North…
Location: Chaya, the Royal Ossuary. POV: King Kieri Phelan
Situation: Kieri’s become aware of something mysterious and troubling interfering with his attempt to bring elves and humans closer together. He has visited the ossuary before, and had some disturbing hints. Now he’s there again…
This time he lit no candle, just sat and listened…to nothing, for a long time.
Then once again he felt presences gathering around him. One conveyed
the combination of wistfulness and stubborn anger that he now associated with his sister.
I’m here, he thought.
Once again: Betrayal. Danger.
He sat quietly, trying to open his mind as he did to the taig.
They lie.
She had conveyed that before, but who lied?
She trusted.
Who trusted?
A fuzzy image of a face leaning down, a sense of warmth and safety. Kieri finally realized this was an adult’s face as a very small child might see it…a face he almost knew…did know, as he noticed the elven bone structure, subtly different from human.
Our mother trusted? Trusted whom?
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There’s a lot of tangled Stuff going on, and I’m only partway through untangling it myself….the chains of causation go all the way back and the characters yammering in my head to tell me their side of it aren’t all reliable witnesses. Even the ones trying to be.
Comment by Ross Ashley — August 15, 2010 @ 6:13 pm
mmmmmmmm.
Comment by APJ — August 15, 2010 @ 6:34 pm
Wow!!! anticipation went from high to kaboom 🙂
i can’t wait until March, thanks for whetting our appetites Mrs. Moon 😉
Comment by elizabeth — August 15, 2010 @ 6:40 pm
That’s what you’re supposed to say after looking at the LiveJournal images of recent soups I’ve made.
Comment by elizabeth — August 15, 2010 @ 6:41 pm
Glad you enjoyed it!
Comment by Kerry (aka Trouble) — August 15, 2010 @ 6:48 pm
The soups did look good, and this was the chocolate for dessert 🙂
Is this from Kings or book 3? Just wondering because you kind of hinted at something similar before.
Comment by elizabeth — August 15, 2010 @ 9:23 pm
Kings…I’ll edit the post to make that clear. Thanks for the question!
Comment by FrancisT — August 16, 2010 @ 5:21 am
Bone soup, bone messages. Both whet the appetite
Comment by Silverbackbutch — August 16, 2010 @ 8:05 am
Ohh, what tasty treats. Both the soup, and the yummy snippet. Can we fast forward now, please? I’ve read Oath of Fealty repeatedly, mining it for all the cool hints you tuck in there. But I’m really ready for Kings…
Comment by elizabeth — August 16, 2010 @ 8:22 am
I do understand…but I just sent back the page proof corrections for Kings last week…so there’s production work to be done. It will be better for the time spent on it…truly.
And I need to put in my words today (have started, haven’t finished.)
Comment by elizabeth — August 16, 2010 @ 8:22 am
Thanks!
Comment by Sue — August 17, 2010 @ 9:58 am
Wow, how do you do that?
With that short snippet you’ve managed to draw me completely into the scene! Amazing!
Hurry on next year.
Comment by Eir de Scania — August 17, 2010 @ 12:38 pm
So you learned how Kieris mother could be killed even though she was powefull and had a good sword, I take it.
Interesting. And intriguing.
Comment by elizabeth — August 17, 2010 @ 12:57 pm
Not that this is what happened, but being strong and having a good sword won’t help if someone drops a rock on you. While it helps to come to a fight with more firepower than the other guy (be it firepower or blades or snowballs) the history of conflict has many instances of lesser forces defeating greater ones.
Comment by Eir de Scania — August 17, 2010 @ 6:52 pm
As well as whenlies and beteyal comes from where you least suspected it.
Perhaps it’s easier -or should I say even easier for elves and humans to misjudge each other, than judging someone of their own kind.
Thar elves and humans misjudge each other we all know.
Comment by elizabeth — August 17, 2010 @ 9:33 pm
Sue: thanks!