The Chronicles of Elantra 4 - Cast in Fury by Michelle Sagara

Author:Michelle Sagara
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Epic, Magic, Fantasy Fiction, General, Romance, Fantasy, Telepathy, Fiction, Intrigue
ISBN: 9780373803378
Publisher: Luna
Published: 2008-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

“The thing I don’t understand is how someone can create an entire race of people from telling a single story.”

Severn, his face in profile, said nothing. He’d said a lot of nothing while the coach made its way through the Leontine streets. Sanabalis didn’t see fit to disembark and clear a path, but someone must have at least said something, because the crowds were sparse, and Kaylin recognized the Leontine equivalent of merchants on either side.

“It is not necessary to understand it,” Sanabalis replied. “It is necessary to understand that it is true. The Old Language was almost a living thing, some part of the Old Ones that could interact with the world. It was not simply hello and good day,” he said. “You don’t understand the nature of Barrani names, but you accept the truth of their existence.”

She nodded.

“Why is this different?”

“I don’t know.” She hesitated. “Marcus, the mage, his magic—you think he’s—”

“Yes. Tainted.”

“Could you tell him your story? Would he even hear it?”

“I could begin,” he said gravely, “but I highly doubt that he would stand and listen. For better or worse, he has chosen. And no, it is not a simple story. It is a living one. Living things are complicated.”

The other hundred questions Kaylin needed answers to she couldn’t ask—not without exposing Marai and her cub. She fell into the silence that Severn had made his own. She was almost happy to see the Imperial Palace as it bobbed into distant view.

“I will allow you to return to the Quarter with me, when Mr. Rennick no longer requires your supervision.”

“Are you going to tell the Emperor?”

“What do you think, Kaylin?”

It had been a stupid question. “You’re going to tell him.” She hesitated again, and then said, “One of Marcus’s wives is red-furred.”

“Yes.”

“What are you going to do about it?”

“Nothing, Kaylin.”

“What are they going to do about it?”

“That is an entirely different question. If I were you, I would not interfere.”

“If you were me, you wouldn’t be able to just stand by.”

“True. It has been a long time since I suffered from the affliction known as youth.” His eyes were orange-tinted gold, and they met her gaze, without blinking, for a very long time.

As if she were a story in progress, and he could read her, and he wasn’t certain what the ending would be, or if he would like it.

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