A Shield of Water by Aleera Anaya Ceres EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Aleera Anaya Ceres
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GOL D E N RIVERS
4 years later…
THE PALACE WAS ONE OF THREE THAT OVERLOOKED THE KINGDOM OF
Dana. Erected on the sandy cliffs that seemed more like adjacent
mountains, each one boasted polished marble and white pillars that held up
domed ceilings. Opened archways, stained glass windows in colors of
white, blue, and various shades of pink and purple filtered light and a heavy
sea breeze through the halls.
Corvina remembered there was once a time when similar halls had been
stained in blood.
That was a different time. Years had passed, yet the memory still tasted
as bitter and poisonous as iron on her tongue.
Now, she resided within a different castle. The third on those cliffs, and
the smallest by far. It overlooked the Lagnh Sea. The bright blue waves
lapped up against the shores below, sometimes rising towards the marble
bridge that led from the edge of the land where the three castles met and
towards the populated city of Port Bay below them.
Corvina always felt god-like when she looked from her balcony to the
city below. A cliff and a bridge separated her from the people, and though
the distance was but miles she always felt it to be more. One could be
separated by more than just a few simple steps, after all.
One could be separated by hearts and souls and emotions that didn’t
quite measure up.
That was a harsher thing, she thought, to be separated by emotions and
sadness and loneliness, rather than a whisper of footsteps. It was a distance
far greater. With space, one could easily swallow it up. With emotions,
others could go where one could not follow.
Those were her melancholy thoughts as she looked down at the bustling
sea-side city. Everyone below had a purpose, a mission, and she could hear
the life from her perch. Her hand lifted and reached out. From this position,
it looked like she could hold Port Bay in the palm of her small, delicate
hand, but it was always just out of reach, never within her grasp.
She sighed and lowered her hand. Even gods became lonely sometimes.
Perhaps that was why they created kingdoms. To feel not so alone from
their skies. To watch happiness unfold and despair because it was
something to be had, yet always so far away.
The cool sea breeze kissed her cheeks, pushing aside her golden strands
of hair and the layered pink skirts she wore. Her palms curled against the
balcony, her body leaning over to catch the bright blooms of roses below.
The thorny vines climbed over trellises and up the side of the palace,
overreaching and entwining around pillars with a suffocating force. If she
reached out and touched them, she would surely bleed. Like her people had
bled.
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