She sat bolt upright, hearing low-voiced chanting nearby. She didn't know where she was, and the sun was already up behind the shutters. She was out of bed, gripping the hilt of the Pewle knife with her right hand and its sealskin sheath with her left, when she remembered....
There wasn't any question which block the Dragon had meant: this three-foot length of hard white granite looked nothing like the crude limestone ashlars that made up the rest of the foundation layer. Identification aside, though, she couldn't imagine how she and Dalar were going to remove it. Dal...
Indeed, it seemed to be getting brighter as Usun found a route for them. She wasn't willing to call it a track, let alone a path, but the fact the massive ghoul obviously came this way meant it was possible for a young woman in good health to do so as well. The little man paused to bend over a li...
Tenoctris slept soundly on the sand beside her, her breath whistling in an even rhythm. Sharina was too weary to sleep, but the chance to stretch out at full length was a blessing she wouldn't have appreciated even a few days before. The royal fleet had beached on a ragged circle of coral sand. M...
"Come along, then," he said to Garric unhappily. "Though you could find it yourself if you weren't blind."The remainder of Holm's guards had retreated swiftly to a pavilion. The sound of a drinking party came through the velvet sides.Garric didn't respond. Leel was unhappy at being ordered to lea...