Sam in the Tower ~ AtFoD

After the Fall of Darkness ~ a brief excerpt...

Sam walked up the stairs to the top of the tower to think and to grieve. The long journey, the sickness and worry, were exhausting and that descended onto her shoulders when she saw Carnac sitting in his study. The tears flowed as she sat down on the window ledge and looked out. So many deaths, so much restless wandering, searching. Just when Carnac had seemed to find peace in the new world, he passed. She let the pain and the sadness flow, trying to remember the happier times, to honor her fallen friend.

When Carnac and Larissa had married and decided to move into a big house, Sam was not so sure. Growing up the Clan way left her suspicious and unsure of villages and big houses. She loved the Groves and the simple gatherings of the people she grew up with and she had treasured that life. That life had seemed to pass as folks were leaving the Groves and moving into villages, barely acknowledging their ancestors or the trees. In spite of that, the house suited Carnac’s new life.

With that in mind, Sam had taught Larissa as much of the healing arts as she could in the brief time they were together. Larissa had been raised in the village and knew little of the ways of the Grove, learning just a few things from her grandmother, a child herself of the Grove, but she was willing to learn. With the help of the other Chosen, they had planted tress and growing vines, placing the house in the midst of a garden. All of which Larissa had learned to love and tend, for the three years since the wedding.

Carnac though, had more easily accepted the new world and the changes they had found when they had returned from the war. He was forever studying everything and the moon and stars were a favorite past time. Many nights, Carnac and Krish would gaze to the heavens, talking long into the night as they sat in the top of the tower that Logar, Storm and Raif had built for Carnac. Sometimes, when he was feeling more like his old self, Vaughn would join them and they laughed and talked like the old friends they had become.

But like all good things, the restlessness took hold of each of them, and slowly, within a few months, they had all left to find their own path. Krish and Sam, bonded many years ago in the Grove, were the last to leave, but they too felt the pull of the wanderer. It now seemed to her, that like all things in life, the circle was closing again, and the sadness enveloped her like the light from the full moon.

She closed her eyes and cradled Star in her lap. Tonight, she would spend the vigil with Carnac’s stars and keep the nightmares at bay with the memories of the good times. Tonight, the past and the future would dance a duet in the sky and she smiled. The long night, exploring the memory of the trees and the great expanse of the stars, settled her thoughts and eased her grief. Sunrise would arrive shortly and together they would sing to the new sun. She rose from the ledge, stretched and walked downstairs. A feeling, just out of reach, stirred her memories and clouded her thoughts as she walked out the back door to join her friends.

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