I could sketch it, take back a detailed record of its surprising existence for the Society.īut no charm could hold so powerful a creature for long, even with my pipes to amplify the effect. What a pity that I could not hold it for long! For I wanted to go up close to it, to study it, to admire it. The griffin stopped abruptly and hovered there, only ten feet from me. This one began as a sharp, penetrating sequence of notes, a blast of charmed music intended to interrupt our assailant, to halt it in its tracks. The melody I played was markedly different from the tune that had summoned Adeline and her unicorn friends. I scrambled to my feet, shoved Rob aside as the first griffin went swooping past, and raised my precious syrinx pipes to my lips. ‘ No!’ I screamed, and rolled away from Rob.
They would bury themselves in the eyeballs of those fierce, glorious, terrifying creatures and the griffins would die and it would be all my fault. He would throw them and they would not miss. They were the charmed kind: fearsomely sharp, wrought from something silvery and glinting with the light of enchantment. How lovely was that? Unfortunately, he also had a knife in each hand. He was so heroic as to cover my body with his own, making of himself a shield between me and the griffin. Of course he was that’s what I’d brought him for. What sleek lines, what elegance, what gleaming, velvety hide. How beautiful it was in that moment, I thought, as I rummaged frantically inside the neck of my dress. My ears rang with the raucous shrieking of the griffin as it descended upon me, all screaming fury and intent to kill.
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