Anna’s Comments (group member since Aug 08, 2016)

Anna’s comments from the ScribIntel for Unsung Authors group.

These are some of my favourite lines from 'Kenneth's Queen', a story of 9th century Scotland and the rise to power of Kenneth Mac Alpin.

In spite of her horror at the place Baena raised her eyebrows at that. “Do you even remember our wedding celebrations? We were both far from happy.”
“We were young and foolish then and are fortunate that our fathers were wiser. Not everyone in the land will be happy with this union, but they must trust my wisdom.”
Baena couldn’t help but smile. “You are right Cinaed, but here?”
Putting an arm round her Cinaed realised she was trembling. “No, not here. Not if it frightens you this much. I know that our wedding celebrations were not happy for you. But this day, the one you have worked for as hard as I, must be joyous.”
“Tell me why you thought here, this place of blood and pain could ever have been the right place for such a celebration.”
“What is the best thing to come out of our union?”
“Our children,” Baena said promptly.
Cinaed smiled. “And yet there was pain and blood then. My God, until last year I had no idea there was so much blood! But from the pain you endured and the blood you shed came the two finest sons and the two most beautiful daughters that any man was ever blessed with. And from the pain and blood of this place can emerge a new land, the finest, and the most beautiful of any on God’s Earth. A land that we shall be blessed to call our own.”
Baena looked around Scone anew, listening to the sleepy drone of the bees. This was a beautiful place with flowers growing among the grasses and the sun shining through the trees. The rich scent of gorse wafted on the breeze. There were ghosts here of course, but this place was hardly alone in that respect. Blood had been shed all over the land.
“Hold your crowning here, my love. This is the right place,”