9/22/2023 0 Comments Melanie rawn torrent![]() ![]() A golden brazier rested in the center of the rug. He knelt directly across from her on a broad blue carpet flung over dry grass. She lifted her head and met her husband’s solemn expression. ![]() That she chose not to claim them was indication enough of where her loyalties lay. Had Sioned still worn hers, they would have numbered seven-but she knew quite honestly that her talents and her powers would have merited eighth and ninth rings by now. Tobin’s eldest son Maarken and his wife Hollis each wore six rings Riyan, only son of Sioned’s old friend Ostvel, had four. The three circling the fingers of her sister-by-marriage, Princess Tobin, were honorary nonetheless they betokened considerable if informally trained power. ![]() There were others with her in the evening hush who wore faradhi rings. But tonight she could feel the rest still on her hands, as she’d told Lady Andrade: like scars. For many years she had worn only her husband’s ring, the emerald he had given her half their lifetimes ago. Sunrunner though High Princess Sioned was, and skilled in the arts of the faradh’im, the other rings that would signify her rank among them were missing from her hands. The immense emerald caught and concentrated the fire of the setting sun into a fierce glow alive with green-gold light. ![]()
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