‘Surely there is another way,’ he murmured. ‘You have the orders of your god,’ came Battu’s voice behind him. ‘If you cannot follow him, who do you fight for?’ Once again Fahren found himself wishing that Arkus had left Battu as he had been. It was true that, after being b...
He felt it important that his people had a voice, one which Battu had long stifled by keeping the throne room bare and empty. One of the first things Losara had done as Shadowdreamer was invite the councillors to return to court. Strangely enough, Tyrellan had not been opposed to returning the th...
‘Standards have gone down,’ muttered the man next to Rostigan, letting brown stew slop from his spoon back into the bowl. ‘It’s the new camp,’ said a woman opposite. ‘Supplies are stretched and some of the cooks have gone over.’ ‘Bah,’ said the man. ‘All these clean-eared ...
The troop approached cross-country from the west and entered the town in fading light. It was a clean and orderly place, built in a valley between low hills, its houses painted green like the surrounding land. The Treewith Inn, where they were to stay, was three storeys high, with a warmly inviti...
She had tried to talk to Jandryn after the previous day’s meeting, but he had mumbled that he had other business to attend to, and would seek her out later, which he never had. Who knew how many nights she had left until some awful fate befell her, or there simply wasn’t time left for personal wa...