Acacia, The War with the Mein
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With that she moved away, leaving Mena standing as the procession issued around her. She felt a person beside her and knew it to be Melio when he slipped his hand into hers and asked if she was well. Mena was not sure how to respond. Watching Corinn’s back as she receded, she realized that she had not fully acknowledged the world as it was now to be and who was to rule it. She understood for the first time just who her sister really was. She had heard the title before, but now it came to her like words engraved in the air before her. It stunned her. There before her, receding down the hill through the windswept light of dusk, went the Queen of Acacia, with her forearms cupped around her heir and her entourage close behind her, the future hers to shape.
The End
About the Author
David Anthony Durham is the award-winning author of three previous novels: Gabriel’s Story, Walk Through Darkness, and Pride of Carthage, which has been translated into six foreign languages.
He has taught at the University of California, Cal State University in Fresno, for the Stonecoast MFA program, and he most recently was the MacLean Distinguished Writer in Residence at Colorado College. For further information and updates, please visit his Web site, davidanthonydurham.com.