Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Dreams أحلام

أحرقت النيران السوداء ودخاني
The fire burned black and smokey in the cavernous lair.  Zuhair looked into the fire and saw two ivory horns spiraling out from a face wreathed in flames. A tendril of orange fire lashed out and wrapped around Zuhair, drawing him near.  "Foolish mortal, I see you."

استيقظ زهير حسين مع بدء.
Zuhair al Hassein woke with a start.


الضغط على كاهنة نفسها ضد المحارب
The priestess pressed herself against the warrior and snaked her arm under his; her body unnaturally hot against the skin.  "Was it the dream again?" She asked.

وقد استخدم زهير للحرارة.
Zuhair was used to the heat.  After the dragon, the fiery priestess, and Shihab's recent manifestations it seemed as if he was always hot.  "Yes, the beast in the fire, but this time he tried to pull me into the flames."

بدأ حلم متكرر لم يمض وقت طويل بعد معركة مع عمه
The recurring dream started not long after the battle with his uncle, Yazid, and the black dragon.  At first they were just dark dreams; blind, he would stumble through the cave until he found the fire.  He originally thought the cave was the lair of the silver who had rescued him, but as the dream progressed he knew it was not.  Now, the dream lead him to the fire deep within the cave where a horned beast would rise up out of the flames.

لرجال العظماء والأحلام المزعجة عند ضمائرهم في الاضطرابات.
"Great men have troubling dreams when their conscience is in unrest."  Her fingers left a trail of flushed skin along his arm. "So what troubles you?"

حصل زهير ارتفاعا من السرير وجعل طريقه
Zuhair got up from the bed and made his way to where Shihab al Din rested horizontally on a stand above the mantle.  He couldn't explain how or why, but he could sense exactly where the sword was when it was close.

سيطر هو ضرب في يده وبكلمة النصل اقتحم الشعلة
He gripped the pummel in his hand and with a word the blade burst into flame, and Zuhair's world was once again made of shapes and sights.  He could just make out the priestess on the bed, propped up on one elbow, her black and silver hair hanging down to cover her ample bossom.

أشياء كثيرة لي متاعب، وهناك ذئاب لا يزال في المملكة وغيرها من الشرور التي خلفها تشيس
"Many things trouble me; there are worgs still in the kingdom and other evils left behind by Chase, my uncle is in chains, having conspired with a black dragon, and Kamilah has once again disapeared--not that that troubles me--but Rana is furious since she took off with some family coin."

ذهب إلى كاهنة زهير وهمس في أذنه
The priestess went to Zuhair and whispered in his ear.  The warrior relaxed and released his grip on Shihab, then followed her back to bed.

غادر صباح اليوم عندما جاء زهير، وكاهنة، وسافر مع الشركة
When morning came, Zuhair left the priestess and traveled with the company of the Yellow Suns to seek out Duke Raam.  There was a small patch of land that he wanted to claim in the name of Sarenrae.