Chapter 3: Chapter 3

“Oisin?” Bel looked him up and down and nodded with a small smile. “It suits you. Follow me, my little deer.” He set off down the path, and Oisin went after him, having to trot to keep up with the tall god’s long stride.

The great double doors proved to lead not into the palace itself, but into a courtyard, which had a garden, filled with flowers that Oisin had never seen before. The flowers were all held in stone-sided beds, with smooth stone paths between them. The broadest of these ran from the doors to the palace proper, where a single, arched door stood at the top of a short flight of broad stairs. With Oisin still at his heels, Bel opened the door and went inside.