Chapter Sixteen
A voice which was threatening and unnaturally passive spoke; we recognized it as a Marher’s.
“The Bellbreaker has come down from Farenfenther. A companion is with him.” I shut my eyes. He had been watching us.
“Prepare to meet him crossing the river.”
The events in his life seemed unavoidable; as if nothing in this world could have stopped the things that transpired in the dark night, yet we will never know. I wonder if he ever imagined the terror that he would have to endure forevermore the night that he closed that window and replaced the sword up against the mantelpiece were it had rested for generations. He must have known that thoughts of the past would haunt him forevermore, causing him to seal himself off from the world permanently in hopes that they would never find him. But who can tell?
Chapter Seven