3/17/2023 0 Comments Comet drawing![]() ![]() If I hadn't turned." He flinched as Morgon touched his side with a wet cloth. If Xel hadn't warned me, I would be dead. He was shaped out of seaweed and foam and wet pearl, and the sword was of darkness and silver water. Then he fell in the sea, and I had to dive for him among the rocks and tide, or they would have found him. He whispered as Morgon ripped a seam open, "Don't. Astrin's head dropped back on the pallet his hand slid down. He held his right hand against his side and would not move it, until Morgon, watching the dark stain bloom under his fingers, made a harsh noise of protest. ![]() His hands were scratched raw his hair was tangled with sea spray. He said, as Morgon put out his torch underfoot and went to help him, "I'm all right." His face was mist-colored in the light from the window he flung an arm around Morgon heavily, and together they stumbled across the threshold, Astrin sat down on the pallet. He turned away after a moment, went to find Astrin. The gold steps curved away from him the winds pushed at him like children, tumbled past him. ![]() Morgon, following them, drawn to the huge, bright structure, put one hand flat on its blue-black wall, one foot on its first step. The winds sped past like wild horses, pouring through empty rooms, thundering down the street to spiral the tower and moan through its secret chamber. Morgon, left to his own in the hollow, singing city, wandered through the roofless halls and wall-less chambers, between piles of broken stones rooted deep to the earth by long grass. Then there was nothing but a long darkness and a withdrawal. Odd pieces of thought rose in his mind: the plain he had looked at, Xel's face, the skins he had hung to dry. Morgon felt an odd shifting in the room, as if another vision of the same room had superimposed itself over his own, and refocused slightly. Astrin, standing across from him, grew still, a dark shape in the flickering light. ![]()
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