Eric Rücker Eddison

Name: The Worm Ouroboros — XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater
Author: Eric Rücker Eddison

The Worm Ouroboros — XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater (1922)

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“The Worm Ouroboros — XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater”, published in 1922, is a work by Eric Rücker Eddison. It explores elements such as Krothering, Zigg and Mevrian.

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater (1922)

“ And in the mid rout, Zigg stole an instant to charge me by my love for him ride to Krothering as if my life lay on it and the weal of all of us, and bid you fly hence to Westmark or the isles or whither you will, ere the Witches come again and here entrap you. Since save for these walls and these few brave soldiers you have to ward them, no help standeth any more 'twixt you and these devilish Witches."
Still she was silent. He said, "Let me not be too hateful to you, most gracious Lady, for this rude tale of disaster. The suddenness of the times bar any pleasant glozing. ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater (1922)

“ Mevrian listened, looking on him with sorrowful steady eyes. "And he so generous-noble flown to comfort Demonland in the blackness of her days," she said at last. "Can fate be so ungallant? O Ravnor, the shame of it! First La Fireez, now Gaslark. How shall any love us any more? The shame of it, Ravnor!"
"I would not have your highness," said Ravnor, "too hasty to blame us. If their plan and compact have gone ⁠p. 334 amiss, 'tis likelier King Gaslark's misprision than Lord Spitfire's. ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater (1922)

“ Zigg with seven hundred horse galloped to Heathby to head him off, whiles our main force fared their swiftest up Little Ravendale. Thou seest, madam, Corinius must march along the bow and we along the bowstring."
"Yes," said Mevrian. "Ye had but to cheek him with the horse at Heathby, and he must fight or fall back toward Justdale where he was like to lose half his folk in Memmery Moss. Outlanders shall scarce find a firm way there in a dark night." ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater (1922)

“ Mevrian set her gaze in the same quarter. "Nothing but ⁠p. 330 mist and spray," she said after a few minutes' searching. "I'm glad I sent Lord Spitfire those two hundred horse. He must have every man can be scraped up, for such a day. How thinkest thou, Ravnor: if King Gaslark come not, hath Lord Spitfire force enow to cope them alone?"
Ravnor chuckled in his beard. "I think and my lord your brother were here be should tell your highness 'ay' to that. Since first I bowled a hoop, they taught me a Demon was under-matched against five Witches." ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater (1922)

“ Thou knowest how near to the mountains runneth the road past Switchwater, and the shores of the lake hem in the way for miles against the mountain spurs, and woods clothe the lower slopes, and dells and gorges run up betwixt the spurs into the mountain side. ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater (1922)

“ Now came Ravnor's messenger at length back from his faring, and the old man brought him in to Mevrian in her bower in the south part of Krothering. The messenger said, "Highness, I bring no writing, since that were too perilous had I fallen in my way among Witches. But I had audience of my Lord Spitfire and my Lord Zigg in the gates of Gashterndale. ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater (1922)

“ So she made him go to supper; but herself sat late that night alone in the Chamber of the Moon, that was in the donjon keep above the inner court in Krothering. This was Lord Brandoch Daha's banquet chamber, devised and furnished by him in years gone by; and here he and she commonly sat at meat, using not the banquet hall across the court save when great company was present. ”

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