A Luna for the Lycan King
They watched us with the mild, bottomless patience of creatures for whom our entire kingdom was a recent event, and there was no hatred in it and no welcome either, only the deep attention of the very old.
A sage came to meet us, grey as river stone, moving slow on the stiff limbs of great age. “The black prince,” she said in the old tongue and then, courteously, in ours. “Water dragon and the canines the eye spoke of. She has been waiting for you since the crystal eye lit. She does not wait for anyone. Come.”
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They had given the Rememberer the highest pool, set apart, where the steam rose thickest and the water held the most sky.