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letra de nightblades - mercedes lackey

they come creeping out of darkness, and to darkness they return
in their wake they leave destruction; where they go, no one can learn
for they leave no trace in passing, as if all who watched were blind
like a dream of evil sending
nightblades passing, nightblades rending
into darkness once more blending
leaving only dead behind

first a threat — and then a death comes in the darkness of the night
and a dozen would-be allies have begun to show their fright
when the nightblades strike unhindered and can take a life at will
there’s no safety in alliance
and much peril in defiance;
it is best to show compliance
and the karsite ranks to fill

the chief envoy summons vanyel, for one ally still seems brave
and the treaty may be salvaged if vanyel this life can save
herald vanyel feigns refusal, senses one would play him fool;
thinks of treachery in hiding
lets his instincts be his guiding
his own counsel he is biding;
he’ll be no unwitting tool

garbed in black slips herald vanyel to their last lone ally’s keep;
over wall and into window, past all gates and guards to creep
past all gates and guards — no magic has them wrapped in deadly spell —
they are drugged, and they are dreaming
some foe strikes in friendly seeming —
see — a metal dart there gleaming!
vanyel knows the symptoms well
now he hears another’s footstep soft before him in the dark
and he hastes to lay an ambush while the nightblade seeks his mark
now he waits beside the doorway of the ally’s very room
and the nightblade, all unknowing
with a single lamp-beam showing
to a confrontation’s going
not to fill another tomb

out of shadow vanyel rises and he bars the nightblade’s way
he has only that slim warning — vanyel has him soon at bay
when the guards have all awakened and he bares the nightblade’s face
and all minds but his are reeling
when he tears off that concealing
and the envoy’s face revealing
brings the traitor to disgrace

- mercedes lackey

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