by GJ Kelly
“I do not need to consider it, my lord,” Jaxon said. “My people are free, and I am free. I am not tythen, and I was only made leader because I’m better with words than some of the others, and a good teller of stories. It was the Talguard who led us out of Armunland, not me. Now, all of us follow you and the Captain, and the Lady who watches over us. I will go with you to the north.”
“You won’t be missed by your people?”
Jaxon shook his head. “Only as friends are missed. I am not tythen, and I am free to go with you.”
“Then thank you. Captain Tyrane, once our friends from Goria are in the care of the Jarn guard I presume you will be free to act upon your own initiative?”
Tyrane beamed. “Yes, my lord, I shall.”
“Excellent. Perhaps you’d have a word with those two woodsmen who accompanied Allazar and I in our hunt of the Kraal?”
“Rollaf and Terryn?”
“Aye. They moved well in the forest. We may have need of their skills between Jarn and Calhaneth, and beyond come to that.”
“Calhaneth?” Jaxon asked suddenly, his eyes wide.
“Yes,” Gawain replied, slightly surprised. “You’ve heard of it?”
“Only in stories about the Old Kingdom, my lord.”
“What did they say about it?”
“Only one thing, my lord. No-one ever goes to Calhaneth.”
As torches were lit in the spreading gloom around them, the voice of Eldengaze rasped from Elayeen once more. “There are none who would journey to Calhaneth since its destruction.”
“Dwarfspit.”
End of Book 2
The chronicles continue in Book 3, Sight and Sound
Table of Contents
Prologue
1. Aftermath
2. Of Songs and Shadows
3. Not Much of Substance
4. Rabbits
5. Raheen
6. Sticks and Stones
7. What News?
8. The Darkness and the Light
9. Descent
10. Forgetting and Forgiving
11. Adjectives
12. Gingerbread
13. Shadows
14. Simayen
15. Pinned
16. Morloch’s Wrath
17. A Poor Substitute
18. Changes
19. In the Neighbourhood
20. Running
21. Hunting
22. The Beast
23. The Plan
24. Contact
25. Thirty Yards
26. The Sight
27. Hurgo the Halfhanded
28. Voices
29. Urgency