Chapter eleven
Thariens, the mountain tarn
(The Tollyn, Eleven)Geya calls to Moonlight. Where is your vessel? We will have need of her very soon.
Raven answers for her. It is her wedding day, Geya. Can we not allow the girl and her husband even a little happiness? There is enough time for that, surely?
Geya snaps angrily. I can see only as far as the next twist in the Gyre, Raven. The Angellus may already be on their way. How do you know how much time we have left?
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Katkin woke from her nap and stretched. For a few seconds, she did not remember where she was, and then she heard Jacq by her side, still snoring gently. Rolling over, she watched her husband’s massive chest rise and fall, the hair veiling it almost as thick and dark as the bearskins beneath them. She smiled, recal
