This is the Godwood, and here Paul became Pwyll Twiceborn, the Arrow of the God--this is why Cernan hears him. Hears him, and acknowledges him, too, as he steps sideways from his usual place and emerges from a screen of trees, tall and long-limbed and wild, seven-tined antlers turning this way and that before his eyes settle on Paul, and he stands very still.
"I am not to be summoned so," he says, and all the depths of the dark forests untamed echo in his voice. The light in the clearing grows dimmer--a hazard of riling the embers of a god's temper.
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"I am not to be summoned so," he says, and all the depths of the dark forests untamed echo in his voice. The light in the clearing grows dimmer--a hazard of riling the embers of a god's temper.
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"By me you are," he says. "In this place."
This is the Summer Tree, and here Paul is Lord. A title he had not truly known the meaning of until now.
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"You were to have died."
It is simply enough said.
"I bowed to honor the manner of your death."
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Paul hears the thunder again; a physical manifestation of the power he feels in the air, almost crackling with energy.
The sun is shining, but it seems insignificant.
"Even so. I am alive, and returned hither to this place."
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