“Qatu’anari needs a new First Wife, and then they can have a Princess Royal. What do you say?” Gin nodded and then threw her arms around his neck in a hug. He held her close as the sun rose high in the sky—over a safe and peaceful Orana.
Sephine materialized into the Void to find Isona and Indarr arguing on either side of the large table where they would all gather from time to time. Kildir was in one corner of the room, and he stood and held out his arms to her as soon as he saw her. “Is it done, my love?”
Sephine nodded. “Yes, she carries the child. Once the next Nature Walker is born, we will have the leverage we need to keep the ancestors of the Qatu from interfering. We will see our plans realized, and we will once again walk the surface of Orana as we were always meant to do.” Isona stopped her barrage of her twin and looked back at Sephine.
“Indarr and I will never agree to release the Ikedrian’s magic back into the world, Sephine. Itar agrees with us, though he remains with his children under the mountains and will not return to live here in the Void.” She smoothed her hair back from her face as her brother walked around the table to stand by her side. “We are happy here. You are a fool to want to return to Orana.”
“We will see who is the fool, Isona. Who of us has an empty temple? My children still need me and call out to me—unlike you and your brother’s followers. Perhaps your time has passed.”
“And if none of us return?”
“Then Kaerinth will grow restless, and the Guardians will have no defense against her.”
Isona scoffed. “Indarr and I will consider your words.”
They disappeared into a ripple of air, and Sephine sighed as Kildir wrapped an arm around her waist. “They will see reason, and the world is again peaceful, thanks to you, my love.”
“For now, at least. For now.”
About The Author
Nancy E. Dunne
Nancy E. Dunne is an avid gamer, adventurer, reader, language nerd and all around geek. The Orana Chronicles is a love letter of sorts to the various worlds in which she has found herself immersed over the years, and the lifelong friends and memories that have come along with them. When not writing, Nancy is an American Sign Language/English interpreter and an accidental rennie, and spends her free time drawing inspiration from her dogs, her husband, and her second home, Yorkshire.
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Books By This Author
Ignite: Tales of the Forest War, Book One
THE WORLD WAS ALONE - AND THEN THE DRAGONS CAME. “The humans have named them dragons, but I do not think that they have ever seen that many. They are the children of one of us, not created by your work at all but by Kaerinth, the Progenitor. She is the mother of all of those you see now, and has until now only come above ground to find food for her many young.”
Orana felt that Rumerus was concerned. “Is this a bad thing?” she asked, worried.
“It may be,” he said. “The dragons could go the way of the dark elves, shunning relations with the rest of the races. Or they could live with and among them. Only time will tell, I’m afraid.” Return to the beginning of the world, of Orana - to a time when dragons roamed her surface alongside the other races, and the Mother Dragon, Kaerinth, dreamed of conquering the world for her brood. Discover the origin of the Guardians - within the tales of the Forest War.
Scorch: Tales of the Forest War, Book Two
Return to the beginning of the world, of Orana - to a time when dragons roamed her surface alongside the other races, and the Mother Dragon, Kaerinth, dreamed of conquering the world for her brood. In Book One, the Mother Dragon revealed her plan for domination. Will the races of Orana overcome their differences in time to stop her? Discover the origin of the Guardians - within the tales of the Forest War.
Wanderer: Origin of the Nature Walker
It has been 200 years since the Forest War divided the races, pitting elf against elf, dragon against dragonkind, and the Nature Walker, highest of all the druids of the Great Forest, has gone missing without naming a successor. The balance of the world has been thrown off kilter.
Welcome to Orana, where a menace prowls the Great Forest by night and no one in the Tree City nor the High Citadel is safe. A young wood elf named Gin who has barely begun her studies as a druid finds herself thrown into the wider world beyond the Forest. Can she find a way to tame the wilds of her world, righting old wrongs and bringing centuries' long enemies together?
Tempest: Fall of the Nature Walker
Is war an acceptable price to pay for love?
The tension is building in the Outlands of Orana. A long forgotten dragon continues his search for the Nature Walker. Gin and Sath go their separate ways, spurred on by the machinations of the wizard, Taeben, and the Fabled Ones splinter further as a result. As Sath begins to build a life far from the royal comforts of the palace of Qatu'anari and Taeben moves even closer to realizing his dream of ruling all of Orana, Gin's younger sister Lairky decides - against her better judgment - to reunite the druid and the exiled prince. Will the magical forces keeping them apart be more than one wood elf can overcome? The journey begun in Wanderer continues in Tempest, book two in the Nature Walker Trilogy.
Guardian: Rise of the Nature Walker
When the fate of the world is at stake, the Guardians shall rise.
The Royal House of Clawsharp has been threatened. The fate of Qatu’anari and indeed, all of Orana, hangs in the balance. Loyalty is stretched thin and alliances are at the breaking point. Ancient foes have broken free of their cursed prisons. The world is in more dire need of the Guardians than ever before. But will the prophecy come true? Will they rise to save the world in its time of desperate need?
After all that she has endured to this point, does Gin have the strength and determination to take up the mantle of the Nature Walker, as prophecy says she must, in order to save the world and those she loves? Or will the past prove to be too much to overcome, not only for Gin, but for the rest of the Fabled Ones?
Return to Orana in this, the final chapter in the Nature Walker trilogy.
Darkness: A Guardians of Orana Novel Page 36