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The Stallion and the Rose - The Choice

from Faces in the Fog by Katt McConnell

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The lady dressed in azure now lets down her long red hair,
Sighing at the soft caress of the salty seaside air.
Beyond the pillars lies the sea, its whitecaps rising high,
Shooting frothy foam into the fiery evening sky.
She gazes outside listlessly, her mind completely blank,
Tracing o'er the roiling waves and up the sandy bank.
She wishes for excitement, to be free from all she knows,
So guiltily her mind trails back to the stallion and the rose.

Many are the noble knights who call her father Lord,
They serve him truly with their deeds, their honor and their swords.
One among them boasts the right to claim the lady's hand—
But this knight is not the one that her love can command.
There is another in the court that she would wish to wed.
The lovers hide their romance and share a secret bed.
Every chance the lady finds, to her lover's side she goes,
And dreams in ecstasy's embrace of the stallion and the rose.

Today the breeze is ominous and warns of darker days.
The fishers work to stow their gear down on the city's quays.
The lady fidgets nervously, sensing troubles near,
When on the ramparts of the keep the warning horn sounds clear.
The lady tears her gaze away from the ocean and the sky,
For far below, upon the bridge, a messenger she spies.
The standard snapping smartly in the ocean wind that blows
Bears the symbols of his house: The stallion and the rose.

She fears the worst, and runs to see what news the herald brings,
Urging speed to feet she wish would suddenly grow wings.
Her kirtle flying wildly, she heeds her worry's call,
And stops abruptly in the doorway to her father's hall.
All eyes fall upon her where she stands inside the door—
The anxious glimmer in their stares concerns her all the more.
She can scarcely breathe—it's as if her blood just froze
As she worries for the safety of the stallion and the rose.

"What news?" she asks her father, who heads the somber court,
And as she hears his answer, she feels her breath fall short—
"Sir Adwain's been abducted by some baleful foe,
And unless we send you in his stead, they will not let him go.
This note is from the House of Rowan, within the land of sidhe,
And says my daughter is the price if Adwain should go free.
And so we have a choice to make—who stays and who goes,
My own beloved daughter, or the stallion and the rose?"

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from Faces in the Fog, released April 10, 2014
Katt McConnell - Narrator, djembe, engineering, mixing, mastering
Riley McConnell - Guitar arrangement and performance
Crystal Wolf - Guitar arrangement
Gabrielle Aumei - The Lady
Barry Childs-Helton - The Father

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