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The Harper's Band

Chapter 2.

Fey

Fey Seer dreamt of her parents. She saw her mother, delicate and as pale as moonlight on a winter snow bending over her, to place a tender kiss on her brow. “Fey,” her mother whispered, “Today the fates part their skeins and a new path begins to open before you. Listen to your heart and seek where you must, for your children’s lives and the future of the East are in the balance.” Fey could not see her father, but heard him singing a wistful song of destiny, loss and sorrow with a voice of unearthly beauty.

It was a strange dream, for she could barely remember her parents. She had a vague memory of her mother’s face, with silver blond hair and eyes as blue as the sky reflecting from a still mountain lake. He father’s face she could not remember, all she recalled was a song of love and tenderness and distant sorrow. His voice was fair and brilliant and his song always comforted and reassured her.

As long as she could remember she had lived with her Uncle Bard in a small cottage in a forest glade at the foot of the Eastern Mountains. Her years had been happy ones, filled with the simple pleasures of the forest. Her Uncle was devoted to his niece, if somewhat eccentric. She never knew exactly where he came from, or how he came to be living alone in the high forest. (...To be continued.)