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    Dancing With Fate
    Dancing With Fate
    Dancing With Fate
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    Dancing With Fate

    By Hywela Lyn

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    When Terpsichore, the Greek Muse of Dance, is assigned to revisit 5th Century Wales, and help the people regain their love of dancing, her task seems simple enough. She is unaware there is a hidden agenda. Before she can return to Olympus her path crosses that of the mysterious Myrddin, and her heart is lost.

    But Myrddin is promised to another. His mind is set on the dangerous task that lies before him, and the woman he has sworn to save. Nevertheless, he cannot deny the growing attraction between him and the beautiful stranger he meets along the way.
    Terpsichore and Myrddin face a deadly force that threatens to part them forever. She seems destined to lose the only man she has ever truly loved. Finally, when all seems lost, in desperation she finds herself DANCING WITH FATE.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHywela Lyn
    Release dateApr 12, 2011
    ISBN9781458011114
    Dancing With Fate
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    Hywela Lyn

    Hywela Lyn (usually known by her second name Lyn) writes fantasy and futuristic romance. Although she was born and lived most of her life in rural Wales she moved to a small village in England when she married, although her dream is to eventually move back to her native land. She loves the countryside and all animals She is pet parent to T'pau, a sweet but feisty mare, a 'ferel' cat who does the mousework at the stables, and a rescued trrier called Choccy.. Harri, her black Welsh Cob, and Sal, her little endurance mare, who sadly have passed over the rainbow bridge, both feature in 'Dancing With Fate. Lyn has three futuristic novels published by The Wild Rose Press, in print and EBook format .as well as being aailable to listen to on Audible. and has been published in several UK magazines and periodicals, including 'The Lady'.

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      Dancing With Fate - Hywela Lyn

      Dancing With Fate

      by

      Hywela Lyn

      Dancing with Fate

      Published by Hywela Lyn at Smashwords

      COPYRIGHT 2011 by Hywela Lyn

      Cover Art by Miss Mae

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

      Dancing with Fate is a work of fiction. Though some actual towns, cities, and locations may be mentioned, they are used in a fictitious manner and the events and occurrences were invented in the mind and imagination of the author. Any similarities of characters or names used within to any person past, present, or future is coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author. Brief quotations may be embodied in critical articles or reviews

      Contact information: Hywelalyn@hywelalyn.co.uk.

      Publishing History

      First Wild Rose Press Faery Rose Edition, 2008

      Dedication

      Dedicated to the memory of my own golden horse, Sally, who was the inspiration for Sal. Also in memory of Flikka, Star, Mr Fifty, and the dogs, Hans, Blaze, Bonnie and Bob, who I like to imagine playing together in their own Elysian fields.

      With grateful thanks to my crit partner, the talented author Miss Mae, for all her help, encouragement and support in this story, as well as my other works. And for the beautiful cover she created.

      Dancing With Fate

      In the valley so green, in the sunlight of morn,

      The muse of the dance strays thoughtful and slow:

      The flowers of spring her bright hair adorn,

      But the wind through the trees sighs, laden with woe.

      She looks o'er the mountains, heart filled with emotion,

      And watches the Teifi to the great ocean flow.

      Cymru, poor Cymru, are the words softly spoken.

      Your music's forgotten, you live by the bow.

      Chapter 1

      Mount Olympus—the distant past

      The last notes of the choir died away and the nine beautiful sisters made the slightest of curtsies to their leader. Apollo smiled in approval and the marble hall, with its gleaming pillars of white and gold, glowed in his radiance. When they turned to leave, he called to the one who played the lyre.

      Terpsichore—I would have a word with you. The lovely, dark haired muse turned and glided back to where the god of light sat in splendor. He held his tripod in one hand and his bow hung over his shoulder. His own lyre or kithara lay on his knee. The brightness that emanated from him was such it almost dazzled even a muse such as herself. However, she met the brilliance of his eyes with pride, and lost none of her self-confidence.

      Clasping her delicately carved instrument, she stood before him and nodded a polite greeting to his raven perched nearby. She inclined her head to one side, a question in her eyes. You wish to speak with me my brother?

      First, I would have you dance for me. You know how I love to see you dance.

      Even if he had not been the Musagetes, leader of all the Muses, and her half brother, Terpsichore could still not have declined to grant his request. Golden hair, curling down nearly to his shoulders, framed his dazzling, almost frighteningly handsome features, crowned with a wreath of laurel leaves. His eyes, velvet brown in some lights, glittering gold in others, had a mesmerizing quality. His masculine physique was sheer perfection. Little wonder every goddess he looked upon with desire, instantly yielded to him, even without the assistance of Dionysus' enchanted wine.

      Apollo nodded to her to begin. Raising her arms above her head, like a bird flexing its wings, Terpsichore drew music from her lyre with the plectrum. The notes rose and surrounded her like a magical veil of sound. Languidly, she moved in time to the music, allowing the silken folds of her long white garment to flow around her like soft ripples in a becalmed sea. She swiveled her hips faster. Bending backward, her body curved in a graceful arc, she placed the lyre against a pillar entwined with vines of gold, in a fluid movement that was part of her dance. With a toss of her head, she swung her long hair, braided with flowers and ribbons, over one shoulder. Her hands and arms moved with the grace of a gentle breeze bending the grass, as she accompanied herself with her own voice.

      As always when she danced, Terpsichore lost herself in the rhythm. She hardly noticed when Apollo picked up his kithara and accompanied her singing. Her bare feet felt as though they no longer touched the ground as they performed the complex sequence of steps in time to her song and the swirling of her hips. It almost seemed as if time stood still and there was nothing but the magick of her dance.

      Faster and faster she whirled, euphoric with the delight of doing what she loved best before someone who showed true appreciation. Then once more she slowed the rhythm and the dance became languorous, eminently sensual.

      The remnants of her song faded and lingered for a moment in the crystal air. Terpsichore spread her arms in abeyance, then clasped her fingers in front of her, and stood for a moment in silence. Apollo lowered his instrument and clapped his hands, smiling and indicating she should sit beside him. She bent to retrieve her lyre, before seating herself and gazed at him, trying to hide her curiosity. You wish something further of me, brother?

      For a long moment, Apollo seemed deep in thought and did not answer.

      Do you remember a land of mortals—a small country known as Cymru, the brotherhood, erstwhile called Cambria, or Wales as some would have it? You may recall the folk who inhabit it, who call themselves the Keltoi?

      The Celts. How could she forget them?

      I do. They were a fierce and noble race, with much knowledge of the powers of nature and the hidden arts. They respected the faeries and mages of their land. She smiled at the memory. I inspired them with music and dancing which they embraced readily. I believe in times to come they will be famed for their love of melody, and the grace with which they express it in their singing and their dance."

      A slight crease appeared on Apollo's brow, normally as smooth and clear as the polished black marble of the great throne of Zeus. Only if you return to impart these skills once more; much has been lost in their skirmishes and fighting to protect their land. A great melancholy has come upon them. I need you to return and inspire them to dance again.

      Terpsichore breathed a soft sigh that echoed through the hall like the singing of the breeze in summer leaves. "My lord—Apollo—I had not thought to return

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