Chapter 50: Akton
At least the incense here wasn’t overwhelming, even if the lighting was low and the procession had to walk single-file down the tunnel. Wherever this was, Akton did not remember the route, and as they went he began to think he’d never been in these corridors. Talfryn walked in front of him and Lochlann behind; somewhere ahead, shifters moved both Ylenia and Shanna’s bodies along. Akton could hear Eynri, one step behind the queen, mumbling chants in the old high language, and for the fifth time at least since they began their walk he wished the royal burial chambers weren’t so deep in the mountain.
Finally the space opened up into a large chamber and they all filed in, Ylenia and Shanna’s bodies draped with sheets shimmering with gold and silver threads, jewels and brigh
