“It no longer haunts me,” he answered.
Her green eyes held his own. “Perhaps you will permit me to remain with you long enough to make certain, Ben Holiday?”
He nodded slowly. “I wouldn’t want it any other way.”
She bent close and kissed his forehead, his cheek and his mouth. The party continued unnoticed around them.
It was after midnight when the festivities ended and the guests began to retire to the rooms that had been prepared for them. Ben had finished saying good night to all who remained and was giving thought to the comforts of his own bed when Questor approached, looking a bit embarrassed.
“High Lord,” he began and stopped. “High Lord, I regret troubling you with so small a problem at this hour, but it needs attending to, and I believe you best suited to deal with it.” He cleared his throat. “It seems that one of the Lords brought a canine pet with him into Sterling Silver—quite a close member of the family, I am given to understand—and now it has disappeared.”
Ben lifted his eyebrows. “A dog?”
Questor nodded. “I have said nothing to Abernathy …”
“I see.” Ben glanced about. Fillip and Sot were nowhere in sight. “And you think …?”
“Merely a possibility, High Lord.”
Ben sighed. Tomorrow’s troubles were already upon him. But then, of course, so was tomorrow. He grinned in spite of himself. “What do you say, Questor—let’s go find out it the gnomes are planning a midnight snack.”
High Lord Ben Holiday, King of Landover, began the new day rather earlier than expected.
About the Author
TERRY BROOKS is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including The Sword of Shannara, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy: Use Witch, Antrax, and Morgawr, and the novel based upon the screenplay and story by George Lucas: Star Wars®: Episode I The Phantom Menace™. His novels Running with the Demon and A Knight of the Word were selected by the Rocky Mountain News as two of the best science fiction/fantasy novels of the twentieth century.
The author was a practicing attorney for many years but now writes full-time. He lives with his wife, Judine, in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.
Visit him online at www.shannara.com
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Copyright © 1986 by Terry Brooks
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