Authors: David Gemmell
Lion of Macedon (67 page)
Mothac was beside the bed when the miracle occurred. The color flowed back into Parmenion’s face, the flesh filling out, but more than this—his hair thickened and darkened, the lines around his eyes, nose, and chin fading back and disappearing.
He looked younger, a man in his twenties. Mothac could not believe what he was seeing. One moment his master and his friend was dying; the next he looked stronger than he had been for two decades.
Lifting Parmenion’s wrist, he felt for the pulse. It was beating strongly, rhythmically.
At that moment a tremendous cheer went up from the soldiers ringing the palace. Louder and louder it came.
Parmenion stirred and awoke. “By all the gods, I don’t believe it!” Mothac shouted.
Parmenion sat up, embracing his friend, feeling Mothac’s tears wet against his face. “I am back. And I am well. What is the reason for the cheering?”
“The king’s son is born,” said Mothac.
Parmenion threw back the sheet covering his body and walked to the window. Thousands of soldiers had surrounded the palace, chanting the name of the heir to the throne.
“Alexander! Alexander! Alexander!”
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