FRAGMENTS FROM THE SONG OF THE LADY OF THE BLACK WOODS AND THE OFFICIAL PORTRAIT OF THE LADY OF THE BLACK WOODS

She rides through the night on a burnished steed,
Eyes of gold fire thrusting forward like
Two bright swords cutting into the night… (fragments missing)

The woods are thicker here.
The darkness grows deeper. The night is at is peak of returning.
“Where am I?” asks she.
“My lady, we are at the place where as a child you used to play.
Although the night conceals it as such.” (fragments missing)
But at this late hour she rides to war,
To a war that will mark the beginning or the end of her reign ( vendelmun literally “ambiguity”).
And they come to a wide plateau the vast plain spread beneath them
In the light of the Three Moons,
And Galdartth and Splix, the two planets of Moir, like jewels
High up in the Nighttime (julindax literally “the hour of the night’s peak”.
She spies him on the horizon all ablaze.
The Fire Man. Kanulka Groan.
“See, there he is,” she cries, her voice carrying onto the air.
“See, there he is, and here I am. I will come. Does he know I arrive?”
“Yes, majesty, he is waiting for you.”
“Then onward we will go. There will be no time for dining. No time for sleep. For tonight, the fate of Ulandor Gelth is decided. Let us hope that it is our time and not his. My time (fragments missing)…. He is mighty foe. But the House of Lux will fight until we can fight no more! As one my people, we march!”
The horses whinny. The horses neigh. They stamp the earth and the booming can be heard from here to Kilp’s Mouth.
“Fill yourself with the rage of our fathers, brethren. Tonight …”

FRAGMENT OF “SAL-X2” FOUND ON GALDARTTH 980. TRANSLATED FROM GELTH ON THE PLANET EARTH BY FORDOX AND GENNETH (YEAR 3004). THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN FROM BOOK ONE OF THE LEGENDS OF ULANDOR GELTH. FRAGMENTS IN THE MUSEUM OF ULANDOR GELTH.