Chapter 15The way to Gwynn’s house was not so easy to find without the wizard’s help and after a few false turns Lukas knew that he was lost.
He stopped.
‘I must sit down,’ he told himself. ‘I must think.’ To go wrong now would only compound the mischief he had done and there would be no help for Collen or for any of them.
He thought about the amber talisman he was seeking, and wondered at the mystery of its power. He knew that there were holy relics in the monastery kept in precious caskets. In times of great need they were brought out and fervent prayers were said over them. He understood that the monks did this to draw on the strength of the man to whom the relic had once belonged, knowing that their own strength or purity was not enough.
Was this how the amber worked?
Lukas found
