By Judith Tarr
The 12 months is 1191. where is the Holy Land, the place the knights of Christ are embroiled in a warfare with the armies of Islam. The prize is the holy urban of Jerusalem.
Led through Richard the Lionheart, the armies of the West are carrying out a campaign opposed to the sultan Saladin. In Cyprus, the king's mom, Eleanor, has struck a devil's discount to supply Richard victory at any rate. purely Sinan the sorcerer understands that victory will expense the king his immortal soul.
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At the same time she acknowledged it, the reminiscence flooded and approximately drowned her. “I need to pass. I can’t remain. i've got to—” “Tell me,” he stated. She didn't comprehend if she may perhaps, yet as soon as she received the 1st phrases out, the remainder got here in a hurry. each second was once as vibrant as though she lived it anew. She observed extra this time, sensed extra: extra darkness, extra foreboding. a part of that was once easily that she knew the way it ended, yet a few used to be higher readability of knowing. She knew who had performed this. She might bet why. Ahmad’s face stilled as he listened, emptying of all expression. while she had informed him all she knew, she left the remainder to him: to talk or to be silent. sunrise grew gray within the silence. the sunshine of the nightlamp dimmed and paled. The hour of prayer had come and long gone, and he had performed not anything approximately it. That surprised her a bit. He was once an excellent Muslim regularly, in all his observances. The sunlight used to be approximately up whilst finally he spoke. “This is a negative factor. It adjustments an excessive amount of; units too many forces at odds. And it truly is my fault. ” “How can it's your fault? ” she requested him. “I . . . made a bargain,” he acknowledged. “With the jinn? ” “Before that,” he acknowledged. “With the outdated guy of the Mountain. ” Her breath hissed among her enamel. “You, too? What did you promote him? Your soul? ” “I desire not,” Ahmad acknowledged. “There is a value, yet he has but to call it. whilst the time got here for him to take it, he acknowledged to me, i'd recognize. ” Sioned’s head used to be aching. She compelled herself to imagine basically, to determine every little thing that there has been to see—and to not bask in a healthy of anger that he had saved this from her for therefore lengthy. whilst she may well belief her voice and her powers of cause, she acknowledged, “I’m definite he desires you to imagine you had anything to do with it—but I don’t think this is often the fee. It’s too handy for too many folks, and it serves your reason too good. no matter what he desires of you, it’s now not your ease or profit. ” “This isn’t the price,” Ahmad acknowledged. “This is the article I paid for. I informed him the identify of the only I hated, and the cause of the hatred. the remaining I left to him. This guilt is on my head; this debt of the spirit is mine to pay. ” “I don’t imagine so,” she stated stubbornly. “I have guilt—somehow i used to be alleged to hinder it, or swap it, and that i grew to become my again. you probably did little to change something, other than probably to make it ensue speedier. Even that's my fault, because you did it for me. ” He glared at her, yet abruptly his face lightened; he laughed, if painfully. “We are smart, aren’t we? We take the woes of the realm on our shoulders. ” “This is true,” she acknowledged. “I triggered this: your guilt; the marquis’ demise, even though my bones inform me he used to be marked for it lengthy earlier than I set foot in Tyre. ” “We are all at fault,” acknowledged Ahmad. “We can’t remain from now on. My brother goes to be in need of me beside him because the Franks tumble in sickness. ” “My brother could most likely desire that I lose myself on the ends of the world,” Sioned acknowledged, “but he’ll need to undergo my presence regardless. After i am going to Tyre. ” That took him aback. “Tyre! Are you mad? ” “Probably,” she stated.