When the untried wizard Orielle enters the Wilding on her
journey to Iscleft Haven, she expects threats from bears and mountain lions,
vipers and hornets.
She certainly doesn’t expect the creatures of legend:
wraiths and gobbers, shape-shifting wyre, and the Dark Fae called the Kyrgy.
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Bone-white horses threaded through the trees. Snow-white riders wore cloaks of ice blue and storm purple. In their frozen marble faces, black eyes spoke for them. ‘Who? From where? From when? Why?’
...
“Kyrgy deal in bargains, my offer matched to yours. Remember that. You have much to learn of the Wilding,” Lady Bone warned. “I hope you survive to complete our bargain.”
...
The rider
swung her sword again, cleaving downward.
Volk’s
blow shattered Saircuista’s sword.
The Rhoghieri had more weapons than the sword he hadn’t used. Knives, including a long belt knife as thin as a poniard. He looked like a man heading for trouble, not just happening upon it.
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“That’s three questions,” Grim protested. “You could let me answer one question, Orielle, before you jump to the next.”
On a
mission for the Wizard Enclave, Orielle ventures into the Wilding, a strange
frontier filled with magical creatures. There she encounters sprites and wraiths,
gobbers and wyre.
All view
her as prey.
A menacing watcher lurks in the citadel—with twisted sorcery as a guard. The citadel at Saet’Idros Archais guarded a passage from the Wa...
