"I never knew the world was so wide," Callen remarked every so often, and her eyes were filled with a sparkle of adventure that backed up her claim.
"Wide and scary," said Cadayle, and she hooked her arm under Bransen's and moved a bit closer.
"Scary?" Callen replied doubtfully. "With the Highwayman here to protect us?"
Bransen smiled widely. He didn't look much like the Highwayman at that moment, in his simple woolen tunic and sandals and with not a weapon to be seen. But the black suit was there, tucked neatly under the wagon's bench, and beside it rested his mother's sword. His sword.
"And where shall we go in this wide, wide world?" Callen absently asked. "To where the wind begins and the gods do battle?"
"To whatever lands we find that are free of battle," Cadayle answered. "And few are those, these times in Honce."
"Then to Behr," Bransen answered, and both women looked at him in surprise.
"To the wide blowing sands of the southern lands, to the temple of the Jhesta Tu in the Mountains of Fire."
"You speak of places I do not know," Callen said. Bransen smiled, for in truth, he was merely spouting names that Garibond had told him in his youth and distant references in the book he had committed to memory so long ago.
"Are there any places we do know, beyond the boundaries of Pryd Holding?" Cadayle asked. Though her tone was light, there was substance to that question that was not lost on any of the three.
"To where the wind begins, then," said Bransen, and he gave the reins a little snap. "And where the gods do battle. That is something I wish to see."
And so they rode from the only place any of them had ever known as home, into new lands and new adventures. Tor Books by R. A. Salvatore The Highwayman The Ancient The Dame This is a work of fiction. All the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
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