He conceded that Tuawtha’s evil scheme could still come to fruition. The Laws of the Universe prevented gods from personal combat, which is why they must use any tool to hand in order to ensure their goals. Mac Lir’s honor forbade him to use any but his own children for his purposes. The demon god had no such scruples.
The god cast his eyes about the wooded Illoytae and smiled. Too long it had stood vacant of his silvan ones. This mating celebration was the beginning of many old wounds being healed.
A movement along the perimeter of the glen caught his eye. Thelorin of the House of Hiloris watched the gathering with a pensive air. The displaced lord wore an aura of darkness that Mac Lir knew had nothing to do with the night or even his kin, the Night Elves.
Soon, Thelorin’s mettle would be tested, and the fate of Mac Lir’s plan, and the entire silvan race, would rest on those broad shoulders. The demon god would not be easily stopped, and the elf lord must be strong enough to withstand Tuawtha’s designs.
The god cast his eyes northwest. There, in the forest of Ashilor, awaited the unlikely forge that would temper and refine Mac Lir’s tool named Thelorin.
The next phase of his plan had begun.
THE END
Glossary – Tylana
People, Places & Things
Carthig – Large, yellow moon. Generally, the first of Tylana’s two moons to rise.
Draelu – Dark Serpent god. Creator of all reptiles and crawling creatures.
Elemjiah – Human god, creator of all humans.
Eon – Small blue moon. Generally, the second of Tylana’s two moons to rise.
Illoytae – Sacred meeting ground; Glen of Peace.
Lunteena – Delicate, magical sailing ships.
Mac Lir – Silvan god, creator of all magical humanoids, including elves, faeries, nymphs, pixies and the like.
Shalen – Band of young, male silvan warriors.
Shaleni – Silvan female of low morals.
Tilsark – A person of irregular, inferior, or dubious origin; an obnoxious or nasty person.
Tuawtha – Demon god, creator of all dark humanoid creatures, including demons, ogres, trolls and the like.
About the author of The Choosing
When she was three years old, PhyllisAnn stood in the middle of her grandmother’s cement birdbath and enchanted an audience at a family reunion by telling stories of her magical world where little girls were actually fairy-princesses, and all brothers were trolls. When she was eight she invented a community of gnomes that lived in the attic of their old, 1756 New England farm house. Many years later, she is still weaving stories of magic and beauty. PhyllisAnn is the mother of four ages 9 to 21, and the wife of her high school sweetheart. They all live together with a cat and a Cocker Spaniel (both names for her characters) in central Massachusetts, along with various romantic characters who don’t believe an author needs to sleep.
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