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He said, "This will have to be dealt with...
Posted on 2010-Feb-11 at 11:58
He said, "This will have to be dealt with carefully or the story will spreadWe can't have Savandi's death traced to our guestsTorre, when we leave lock this room with the body in itAfter dark, when the others are asleep we will deal with him
"He'll be missed at dinner," Torre saidYou will see him ride through the gate late this afternoonHe will be going to see his familyIt fits, just after the Ember Days, and in the wake of the news from ChiaraHe has ridden out often enough, and not always with my permissionI think I have an idea why nowI wonder if he ever really rode to his father's houseUnfortunately for Savandi, this time he is going to be killed by someone on the road just outside our valley
There was a hardness to the High Priest's voice that Devin had not heard beforeHe looked down at the dead man againBut rolex diamond watch this one was differentThe guard in the Nievolene barn, the soldier in the hill pass, they had been doing what they had come to the Palm to doLoyal to the power they served, hiding nothing of their nature, true to their manifest causeHe had grieved for their dying, for the lines of life that had brought him together with them
Savandi was otherwiseThis death was differentDevin searched his soul and found that he could not grieve for what he had doneIt was all he could do, he realized with a sense of real uneasiness, to refrain from plunging his dagger again in the corpseIt was as if the young priest's corrosive treachery to his people, his smiling deceit, had tapped some violence of passion Devin hadn't known lay within himAlmost exactly, he thought suddenly, the way that Alienor of Castle Borso had done, in a very classic chanel handbag different sphere of life
Or, perhaps, at the heart of things, not so very different after allBut that was too hard, too dangerous a knot to try to untie just now, in the staring presence of deathWhich reminded him of something, made him suddenly aware of an absenceHe looked quickly up at Danoleon
"Where's Alessan?" he said sharply"Why didn't he follow?"
But even before he was answered, he knewThere could only be one reason in the world why the Prince hadn't come
The High Priest looked down at him"He is still in my chamberThough I am afraid it may be over by now And rose, and went to the door, and into the corridor, and then out through the eastern doorway of the infirmary into the slanting light of late afternoon, and began, again, to run
Along the back curve of the temple dome, past the same small building as before and a balenciaga bag buy little garden he hadn't noticed coming here, then back, flying, down the path to the High Priest's house, and up onto the portico between the pillars, as if rewinding events like a ball of wool, to the window through which he had leaped such a little while agoAs if he could race back not only past Savandi, past their coming here, but all the way back, with a sudden, incoherent longing, to where the seeds of this grief had been planted when the Tyrants came
But time was not rewound, neither in the heart nor in the world as they knew itIt moved on, and things changed, for better or for worse; seasons changed, the hours of sunlit day went by, darkness fell and lingered and gave way to light at dawn, years spun after each other one by one, people were born, and lived by the Triad's grace, and they died
Alessan was still in chanel pearls the room, still on his knees on the simple carpet, but beside the bed now, not by the heavy, dark oak chair as beforeHe had moved, time had moved, the sun was further west along the curving sky
Devin had wanted to somehow run his way back through the moments that had passedThat Alessan might not have been left alone, not with thisOn his first day in Tigana since he was a boyHe was no longer a boy; there was grey in his hairTwenty years worth of time had run and he was home again
And his mother lay on the High Priest's bedAlessan's two hands were laced around one of her own, cradling it gently as one might hold a small bird that would die of fright if clutched too fast but would fly away forever if released
Devin must have made some kind of sound at the window for the Prince looked upDevin ached inside, wordless with omega replica watch sorr
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