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Bride Price [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
Description: When non-telepaths marry, the two become one flesh. With telepaths, like Rohana Aillard and Gabriel Ardais, the joining may be deeper still. But if husband and wife become one mind, what happens to the survivor when one of them dies?
eBook Publisher: Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, 1987 The Other Side of the Mirror
eBookwise Release Date: January 2007

42 Reader Ratings:
Available eBook Formats: OEBFF Format (IMP) [23 KB]
Words: 4079 Reading time: 11-16 min.

Around her the chapel of Comyn Castle was silent; empty save for herself and the painted figures of Camilla, Hastur, and Cassilda on the walls, painted in the old style; Camilla with her arms filled with fruits of summer, Cassilda with starflowers in her hands, Hastur silent and motionless before the women; as unresponsive as Gabriel before her on his bier. The body was covered with heavy velvet draperies in the Aillard colors, gray and crimson, and Rohana, dry-eyed, could only remember the filmy draperies in the same colors, laid out on her narrow bed on the morning of their wedding.
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