Queens Walk in the Dusk

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Thomas Burnett Swann. Queens Walk in the Dusk

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CHAPTER ONE

“…and you will wed your uncle, the priest of Melkart, as befits a princess of Tyre.”

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“Virgin,” taunted the captain. “‘She shall play no more on the docks,’ said the King to me, when I told him what I had heard. ‘Flights from the palace, disguises, talk with the scum of the docks. No one will harm a princess of Tyre. But she must have a husband, and I an heir.’ But now she has lain with a common sailor, a Glaucus at that!” If his spear was a shaft of sun, his sword was sculptured night. His men were like figureheads on a beached and silent ship.

She did not see the blade which pierced her husband’s heart; she fell to her knees and felt him die, however; the leap of the stricken body: the ebbing of life. She saw the spirit depart from his lips, and wanted to immaterialize and join its flight, but not from fear.

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