of Silver Dreams and Golden Shadows
Prologue
Reighn O'Haire stared into the fire before her, not
seeing it. If you looked close enough, you could see that her eyes were
unfocused. Her mind wandered to the magical web that created the earth,
melding her spirit with the earth's. Her mind flew over tree and rock to
a place she had never seen before. This place was ancient.
She recieved a mental picture and gasped at the sight of Rivendell,
home of Elrond. Reighn had read the books, and had felt that they had more
fact to them than most thought. In fact, even now she wore tan riding breeches
and tall black boots, along with a dark green elven tunic and tan undershirt.
But her mind was not on clothing. She had felt a disturbance in th ley
lines of the web, which meant that a new power had just awakened, and she
had tracked it here.
Her mind floated past faces she should have recognized,
and she did. A door opened, and she felt the strong pull of new magic within,
she entered the room spiritually, and was surprised at what she saw. There,
on the bed lay a sleeping elf maiden, tossing and turning. Somehow, her
nightmares had awoken her power, and for Reighn to have felt it from so
far in the future, then this woman must have a great potential.
Her mind suddenly snapped back to her body and she
backed away from the fire. She slung her Celtic made bow and quiver of
arrows onto her back once more, and strapped a wicked looking sword there
as well. She pulled on a long, hooded dark green cloak and whistled. Out
of the dark came her dark dapple-gray stallion, Shadow Walker. He stopped
in front of her and she mounted, turning his head in the direction if a
familiar ruin. A circle of ancient stones.
Once there Reighn dropped the reigns in front of
the last standing archway and began to chant in an older version of gaelic.
She pulled glowing green strands of power from the ley lines and wove them
together to form a gate. it stood, glowing around her, and in the center,
showed the entrance to Rivendell's valley. She smiled grimly and urged
Shadow Walker through. She had begun the mission to find this new power
and teach its weilder to use it, before she killed someone, or someone
evil took over her vunerable mind....