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A raven leads a pregnant girl away from her Tedrel army captors. She meets a Companion whose Herald needs help.
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Liana has been a prisoner of the Tedrels for a year. She escapes while the Tedrels are away from camp fighting Valdemar. It is close to or during the final battle of the Tedrel Wars, because in the next story she is a refugee placed in Haven along with the other Tedrel orphans and her babies are two months old. The camp children had encouraged her to wait for the Ghost Horses and White Riders (preached by Kantis). Herald Reneth was a spy in the Tedrel camp. He is not one of the four trained by Mindhealer Crathach in Exile's Honor, Chapter 10, to "be Karsite" using Alberich's memories, because the young man who would join the Tedrels had a name, Wethes. Herald Reneth might have left the Tedrel camp because his identity had been discovered, which would be why the mercenaries came after him.
See also[]
- "Going Home," a later story featuring Liana
- The Valdemar Anthology series
- Chronological order of books: expanded edition