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Idumea.
It started with a woman. A harbinger.
Betrayal ruins trust.
You see, the unmarried king had a Wizr, one who had great power.”
Wizr is one who knows the words of power. The ancient tongue of Idumea.”
that which we conceive in thought and marry to desire becomes real.
most lack the will to persist.
They quit to...
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But for those who do not, the Medium provid...
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if the point must be made again and again and the subject is particularly stubborn, the ...
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like it did with your Ald...
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She missed that
the lusty king commanded his Wizr to put a spell on him. One that would make him look and sound like his enemy.”
“Mareh,”
She watched as his features changed, his hair becoming a reddish gray and a beard sprouting on his face. In an instant, he looked like Aldermaston Gilifil.
But it lasted only as long a...
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The Wizr warned him not to use it. He prophesied the disaster
But the lusty king stole his enemy’s wife for one night.
And on that night, her husband, who had been preparing for battle, was...
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“She conceived th...
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her kingdom was about to be destroyed, so she sought the favor of her ene...
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did not tell her that the child in her ...
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“He married her?”
And when her son was born, he told her the truth of it, that the babe was his all along.
She hired a kishion to kill her husband a...
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“But the Wizr stole the child before it could be slaughtered. And hid it in a castle pigpen as a wretched of sorts.”
“You could be a lady, Eilean.
If you could but control that tongue of yours.”
“Rhiannon.”
‘druid’
‘weid.’”
oak-knower
oak-...
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There are certain trees that possess magics most d...
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pique.
pique /pēk/ I. noun a feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one's pride • he left in a fit of pique. II. verb 1. [with obj.] — stimulate (interest or curiosity) • you have piqued my curiosity about the man. 2. (be piqued) — feel irritated or resentful • she was piqued by his curtness. 3. (pique oneself) —‹archaic› pride oneself. – origin mid 16th cent. (denoting animosity between two or more people): from French piquer ‘prick, irritate.’
“He cannot use the Medium, sister.
Test my words. See for yourself.”
“The scolding he gave me was for aspiring above my station.
I’ve never seen him so angry.”
We’re digging a tunnel from the abbey to the castle.
Again he was right. She and the kitchen helpers had been treated very differently from others at the abbey.
“Do you want to see the tunnel?”
“I’m terrified of the dark,”
Maybe tomorrow afternoon? Before it gets dark?”
Man’s mind is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
‘We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would hurt our feelings.’
No one wants to be wrong.
Cruix Abbey
It’s a term of contempt for one whose actions bely their thoughts.
uses that word for learners who are pretentious, double-minded, and blind to their own folly.”
She could feel the Leering carved into it and sensed, as she often did, its purpose. She knew that was a rare ability for a wretched.
