Editing Unglak and the Stone (section)

== The Halls of the Sylvan Elves ==

The trumpet's call announced an arrival

Whom the grim lord greeted to his kingly court.

And courtiers crowded to meet the Lord

Sent to speak for the Watery Land.

Among the rest

the dark sea elves came 

to become Sylvan guest. 


The Marid smiled, benignly bowed,

Wishing them well with liquid voice.

Seuse, he noted, his Lady and liege,

Was friend to their folk since the sea faring Age.

His thin lips smiled

as a shark’s might that stalked

Prey in the wild.


Their talk soon turned by delicate degrees

To the mail to be made for the land's own lord.

That grim lord laughed and with braggart's boast

Said that they should be finest friends

Since both in their worth

worked to make him

the strongest on earth.


Their words wound on to meaningless matters

And soon they stopped when others arrived.

His evil eyes, though, caught Unglak’s face

And scanned and studied each feature and fault

As if there he read

with gruesome pleasure

ancient tales of dread.