Fantasy fiction; Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
Now came a stir near the stately doorway, and Lessingham beheld a Demon
of burly frame and noble port, richly attired. His face was ruddy and
somewhat freckled, his forehead wide, his eyes calm and blue like
the sea. His beard, thick and tawny, was parted and brushed back and
upwards on either side.
“Tell me, my little martlet,” said Lessingham, “is this Lord Juss?”
“This is not Lord Juss,” answered the martlet, “nor aught so worshipful
as he. The lord thou seest is Volle, who dwelleth under Kartadza, by
the salt sea. A great sea-captain is he, and one that did service to
the cause of Demonland, and of the whole world besides, in the late
wars against the Ghouls.
“But cast thine eyes again towards the door, where one standeth amid
a knot of friends, tall and somewhat stooping, in a corselet of
silver, and a cloak of old brocaded silk coloured like tarnished gold;
something like to Volle in feature, but swarthy, and with bristling
black moustachios.”
“I see him,” said Lessingham. “This then is Lord Juss!”
“Not so,” said the martlet. “’Tis but Vizz, brother to Volle. He is
wealthiest in goods of all the Demons, save the three brethren only and
Lord Brandoch Daha.”
“And who is this?” asked Lessingham, pointing to one of light and brisk
step and humorous eye, who in that moment met Volle and engaged him in
converse apart. Handsome of face he was, albeit somewhat long-nosed and
sharp-nosed: keen and hard and filled with life and the joy of it.
“Here thou beholdest,” answered she, “Lord Zigg, the far-famed tamer of
horses. Well loved is he among the Demons, for he is merry of mood, and
a mighty man of his hands withal when he leadeth his horsemen against
the enemy.”
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