When we got to the eating-house a young man let us in and showed us to a table at the window (as I’d asked; they have large glass windows on the side of the water). Riei asked for a screen so we could be on our own a little, and…

Neither Riei nor me wanted to stay in Silvermine or close to the bandit village any longer, so we collected Erne and Arin and the mules and Erne’s borrowed donkey, and Tarn who was really interested in going to school in Veray, especially because he’d talked to his old grandfather…

It was strange to be without Riei! Though I could still feel her in my mind, that made it less bad. And I was with Venla and Fian and Lochan and Liase. The village already knew we were coming, more than half the people there are gifted! And all the…

Sometimes I want to jump out of my skin with happiness. (Sometimes I don’t.) Tylenay may not be the best place to be, it feels less safe than even Veray, but just like in Veray we’ve got people looking out for us, and I’m doing what I do best. The only…

While we were hugging each other because we both wanted to go to Tylenay, or at least in that direction, and it all came out so well, our stomachs began to rumble almost at the same time. It must be mid-day already! In the kitchen we found Khimat, who said, “you’ve…

I woke up and stretched and yawned. “Hey!” Hylti said from beside me. “I was going to do that!” Riei stirred and went “huh?” and then came awake all at once. “There are three of us in the bed!” “Yes, Hylti stayed the night, don’t you remember?” “Oh yes. So…

We delivered Arin to his work — it was already the third day, we were getting used to it! — and went on to the school and the temple. Nobody looked strange at Riei kissing me and taking my sword any more, either. We worked the whole morning, and then…

Several people said that Leva should have stayed in Turenay and gone to school there, but I don’t remember who and in which context! The page, perhaps, and at least one of the guildmasters at the high table. A page — a girl a bit older than us, in the…

  Riei was up first the next morning, and had used the chamberpot before I could, and now it was so full that I had to go downstairs with it very carefully. It didn’t help that the kittens were following me around whenever they saw me now, and they wanted…

We were so busy with Venla’s loom that we completely forgot to eat. Or to rest. Or even to drink water. When we were at a point that we could stop it was already getting dark, and we probably wouldn’t have stopped even then if I hadn’t felt Riei poking…