The Crown and the Dragon Page #5

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Aye...

Will you be joining the sister's then?

They'll keep me here, no doubt.

Just long enough to see

my aunt's wishes fulfilled and me

the pretty wife

of some influential laird.

Aye...

someone clean.

Aye.

The deed has been prepared.

You are a Paladin.

To crown the dragon,

you must first kill the dragon.

Paladin.

Gods, the Paladin.

The Paladin is here!

The Paladin.

Bring me the girl.

Alive and unharmed.

What's happening? Is she hurt?

She has begun the glyderinge,

her dream quest.

- She's the Paladin.

- What?

There' no time to spare.

You must take her to the hermit

on the shores of Lough Aislinn.

She must undergo her anointing.

Aedin, you must take care of her.

Her fulfillment has drawn the Dragon.

The two are now linked.

It won't rest until one

destroys the other.

You're a part of this now, Aedin.

Blessings of the Gods be on you. Go!

We have to keep moving.

Traitor!

We need to move faster.

Get back.

Elenn.

Back.

Come on.

If it catches our scent

we won't out run it.

We've got to keep moving.

Come on. Just a little bit further.

We're there.

Hey!

Hey!

What do you want?

Oh no! Don't you bring

your troubles around here!

We've come from the Leode!

I don't care where you come from!

Take your strumpet and piss off!

We're coming in.

What you do... What's going on?

What's going on?

Those are precious artifacts.

- So is she.

- What's happening?

She's its keeper.

She's entered the glyderinge.

Gods above!

- The Paladin...

- You've got to finish the ceremony.

We haven't much time. Candles!

Celyn berries! Do you know them?

She's going to die, man! Quick!

Leif.

I should have known.

Hello again, old man.

I've told you,

I have nothing more to sell you.

Hello, old friend.

Looks like you turned traitor.

No, it's about revenge.

- Where are your new friends?

- Where's the girl?

Miles from here.

For a smuggler,

you always were a terrible liar.

You can still just turn and walk away.

No, no.

I've been looking forward to this.

Is this the glyderinge?

Remarkable.

Like all your battles, Aedin,

this is one you cannot win.

Now tell me where's the girl.

Defiant to the last.

That girl just killed you.

Oh no.

Where is she?

He took her.

I've sold him many things

in the past...

Didn't think I had magic

left to pluck his birds.

Is she alive?

The Glyderinge... not finished.

She's fragile...

may not wake.

Elenn.

Wake up.

It's the latest fashion in Rhona,

I believe.

I am Corvus of Renonia.

You are Corvus the traitor.

Born into a family of Deiran nobility.

My father, in his wisdom,

made himself useful to the Emperor,

and I spent my youth

and education abroad.

I have seen so many things, Elenn.

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