Dragon Wings

Synopsis

Dragon Wings - Flame and Ash IV A novel by Tolmarher Series: Continuus Nexus - Septima Saga First word, then iron. In the Impaired chapel of the well, Clea pronounced the Sermon of Ash: order, continence, peace with arms between Santino and Ricard, shared duty of Medea and Menorah, and containment of desire as a discipline of the soul. So, from inside the enclosure, a child's voice says, "Can I come in?" It doesn't come from the door. It's from the wall. The liturgy becomes a quarantine of panic. The perimeter resists: arrows, pits, oil; Astarzo opens clear with framids that remove the air to the street; Bardo protects scrolls; Maximilian loads his box and displays the cowardice that will later learn how to tame. At last, the town teaches face: amber eyes, tense skin, lips-free mouth that smiles as a tool displaying edging. The main rake cites a pat: only sealed from the inside. Sancho - guard bone, mud memory - and Sandor - clan's upper hand, iron mechanic - come into the inner corridor. Chain, paddle, wedge: office against hunger. Fingers worn by stone tantle the tit and dark blood sign the sergeant's neck. They swear: by the Red Moon, by the old lady who goes up, by the child who reads, by the town that still doesn't devour. They give two blows - one that warns, one that holds - and never the third. The rag falls "as a verdict falls": it bites stone, the wedge sings his perfect note, and the chain clears his gut. Sancho and Sandor stay inside. Upstairs, Astarté rises with food, children, books and map and a tacit pact between Ricard and Santino: range at the service of the course. At dawn, Bardo challenges his skin: next to his spiral with his balance (mark of The Mags) looks the word Clea dazzled in his dream: Umbral. Medea and Menora take him as a jewel but as a debt. Duncan sets his way, Django asks, doesn't command, Astarté puts up his air. Luther's back with his doors sealed and an oath nailed into his ham. The fog doesn't move. Learn. And the tale - as old dragons - goes on.