CHAPTER 2

Elide Lochan had once hoped to travel far and
wide, to a place where no one had ever heard
of Adarlan or Terrasen, so distant that Vernon
didn’t stand a chance of finding her.
She hadn’t anticipated that it might
actually happen.
Standing in the dusty, ancient alley of an
equally dusty, ancient city in a kingdom south
of Doranelle, Elide marveled at the noontime
bells ringing across the clear sky, the sun
baking the pale stones of the buildings, the
dry wind sweeping through the narrow streets
between them. She’d learned the name of this