The excitement builds as the release
of
Kriki's Gift, Book Two of the Geometry
of Power
draws near.
Her
thoughts lingered on the vision of the nest of monsters being incubated in the
nursery somewhere beneath them. She had listened intently to the report Leitho
and the King had given in the council and had picked up on the horror and
revulsion in their words and demeanors. They had spoken of King Meldh's
experience with similar inhuman beasts in his time and she thought of the
nightmare reality that these monsters were here already, here in her time and
in her world - in truth just miles away.
Fear
and loathing started to inch their way into her thoughts and unconsciously she
stopped repeating the Queen's chant while she remembered what the King had said
and in her imagination she pictured the reptilian-like offspring of human
mothers. She shuddered in revulsion at the vision of beasts with human
intelligence, all under the control of the Nameless Ones. They were creatures
born of human mothers but designed to destroy humanity.
Her thoughts drifted to the
stories she'd heard about the altar and the hideous rites of darkness and
violence the Valkea had orchestrated there. If something went wrong with their
plans and if the wild throngs of the enemy overwhelmed her escort, she might
find herself facing the bite of a sacrificial blade and the ultimate profanity
of cannibalism after her death!
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