The Swans' War 3 - The Shadow Roads (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
For a moment he closed his eyes and felt the slight soothing this brought. Tuath flipped the cloth covering back on her work of horror. Immediately, Toren lifted his wineglass, feeling the wine, dry and slightly bitter, on his tongue. "There is no news to lift the heart," he said, lowering the glass. "Monsters abroad and sor-cerers reborn, our land about to be overrun." He looked around the group—Fael and men. "I feel I have fallen into a tale of old, a tale of heroes—but I don't feel that I measure up to the heroes of stories.""We have not been tested, yet," A'brgail said softly. Lady Elise sat upon a Fael chair, pillows and rich coverings around her, yet she was still dressed in men's cast-off clothing, mended and worn. Her gaze was far away, and Toren felt sympa-thy for her. This was certainly a time to test her, a girl who had likely thought that life would consist of little more than marriage and the vain conspiracies of her family. One of the young men from the wildlands hovered a few paces behind her, and the giant, Orlem Slighthand, sat in a chair to her right, as though that was his rightful place.
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