Aneirin takes a deep breath. “He is not going to permit her again.”

“She’s his daughter, for Creator’s sake!”

“Don’t get me began.” Aneirin gestures for me to go forward. After I’m nearly out of sight, he calls, “I’ll be sure to get out of right here safely. Haven’t any concern.”

With a nod, I press ahead, strolling for a number of minutes, with nothing however the light faucet of my boots, the hum of bees, and the whisper of buzzing birds as they streak from flower to flower.

I don’t know what to anticipate of this Excessive Emrys. A nervousness falls with every of my steps. I’m certain each emrys in Gorlassar senses my rigidity. I’m the interloper. I’m the one human among the many immortals.

If I may even name myself human anymore.

I’d as nicely be assembly my maker, as insignificant as I really feel.

Chapter 7

The grove is simply past the backyard wall, as Aneirin promised. I comply with a moss-covered path into stately hardwoods that overshadow the trail. I don’t know how lengthy I’ll wander earlier than stumbling upon the Excessive Emrys.

I spherical a bend, and a light-weight catches my eye. Off the trail just a few meters, between two timber, a lady in pale lavender stands along with her arms outstretched in entrance of her, as if she is able to catch raindrops from the heavens. A glow haloes her physique. Her silver-blond hair grazes her decrease again.

I practically drop to my knees.

From behind, she appears to be like a lot like Niawen.

The lady doesn’t flip, however mushy phrases drift towards me. “One second, Kenrik. I’ll be proper with you.”

I brace myself in opposition to a tree, drawing a deep breath earlier than I step off the trail. She is magnificence. She is purity. I’m overwhelmed by the awe of her presence.

I stand earlier than grandeur. The Excessive Emrys is past the grace I felt in Niawen, even the grace I carry.

When I’m ten toes from her ladyship, shut sufficient to see her face, I startle. A furry bundle drops out of the sky, and the Excessive Emrys catches it in her arms.

Not raindrops from heaven, then.

The Excessive Emrys brings the bundle as much as her chin and smiles. “He’s not excellent at gliding but.”

I attempt to make out what’s in her arms. “Is that . . . ?”

“A flying squirrel. He misjudged his touchdown.”

“And also you knew he’d be plunging from the sky simply now?”

She doesn’t reply me. The Excessive Emrys whispers unusual phrases to the little critter and touches her nostril to his earlier than setting him on the bottom, the place he promptly scurries off.

“Properly,” she straightens. “Kenrik, I see you’re filled with questions.”

“You already know who I’m.”

“I do know a whole lot of issues. I used to be anticipating you immediately.” She turns towards me. As she lifts a leg above the forest flooring, her creamy, naked foot gleams with interior gentle. “So”—she turns her palms outward—“you’re human however not human. Emrys however not emrys. You’ve modified.” She holds her arms just a few inches from my physique and sweeps them round my face and shoulders, stirring the air in opposition to my face and neck.

“What am I, then?”

Her arms settle close to her thighs. “One thing else fully.”

“Niawen gave me her gentle to heal me. However why did she have to present me all of it?”

“She didn’t perceive that your mortal physique doesn’t share the identical capability to carry gentle as an emrys’s physique does. Since your human heart-center couldn’t comprise that a lot gentle, your physique absorbed it. You’re proper to say that it’s in your blood and in your bones, that it’s fused to you. It can’t be harnessed the way in which emrys harness gentle, but I see that it has given you enhanced attributes. What have you ever observed up to now?”

“Nice pace. Power. Exceptional listening to.”

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