Tower of Destiny, page 16
Myrial turned quiet eyes to Adrina. “He has already paid,” she said, “I killed him.”
“He’s dead?”
“Dead as can be. He said he made sure you were gone. He was going to kill me. I thought he was going after you next. I could not—”
“Don’t,” Adrina said. “No need to explain. I don’t want to know. I trust you did what you had to do, as I did what I had to do.”
“Valam?” Myrial asked. “I heard that he—”
“He will live. I have seen to that, but at what price?” Adrina said under her breath. She was asking herself, trying to come to terms with what she had done. She spoke loud enough for Myrial to hear as well. She couldn’t carry the burden alone.
“The dragon mark?”
Adrina kneeled, looked up at Myrial. “Who told you of the dragon mark?”
“I hear things,” Myrial said.
Adrina’s face was screwed up, livid, her eyes filled with pain and rage. The fingers of her hands tensed while the nails dug into her palms. “I did what I had to do.” She cried, her sobs echoed off the walls of the room. “I did what I had to do.”
“No need to explain,” Myrial said, turning Adrina’s own words back on her. “I don’t want to know. I trust you did what you had to do.”
Adrina put her head in Myrial’s lap. “Valam will live.”
Myrial combed Adrina’s hair with her fingers. “Yes, he will. You did what you had to do.”
“And the elves, have I damned them too?”
“You have damned no one. Lord Geoffrey brings word of renewed commitment to the Alliance from the leaders of the Free Peoples. Representatives arrive within the week. True, earnest discussions will begin.”
Adrina looked up at Myrial. “How do you know such things?”
Myrial said coolly, “Bever’s whisperers are now mine.”
“He was a spy?”
“So it would seem.”
End Of Book Four
Here ends The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches
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