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Chetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 28How like Urolf (Feyrwarl) looked, except that his face had been used in quite a different way, thought Wycan, noting the laughter lines around his eyes. Feyrwarl wasn’t smiling now.
“You rejected your own son, you presumably caused his death … You split our clan and wrecked these woods in a fit of pique. You are not fit to rule.”
Everyone snapped to.
Wycan looked around. A fight was coming.
His hand went to his belt.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0425 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 27-iiLooking down, Wycan couldn’t even see the ground on which he stood. On a thought, he bent to touch it, and felt … nothing.
“The ground’s gone too,” he went on slowly. “I am standing in the middle of … nothing.”
A clap of thunder cracked the silence.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0417 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 27-i You broke up the Yul Kinta clan, you destroyed this realm. Would that you had never been!
Wycan whirled about to see two figures there: Thrulvar and the other.
Wycan looked into that face and knew. Did he not look into one just like it every day?
“Father.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0419 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 26Leana’s face was white and anxious. “Gom?”
“He’s headed for the Concourse.”
“Then so are we. Elder Hanselor?”
Hanselor raised his arm. “Forward with all speed. Young Althlafor’s in danger of his life!”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0430 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 25“As for one race being better than the other: my lady, like it or not, you are part Yul Kinta now—with your son.”
For a moment, it looked as if she would strike him. Then she simply stood and strode away.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0418 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 24His mother slipped, scraped off the cliff wall, then rebounded off towards the falling water. Wycan grabbed at her arm but to his horror his hand passed right through it! Reaching her, the nearer figure caught her by the mantle. The mantle gave, fully revealing the burden beneath, A baby, bound to her chest with a shimmering gray shawl. That glimpse was all he had before woman and child vanished through the falling water.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0425 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 23(Gom): “When will (Leana) waken, do you think?”
“By this night’s end, we should know.”
“Know?” Gom’s throat was dry. . . .
“After living in our woods, Leana may now be part-Yul Kinta. . . . If she is unchanged - if she’s still fully human - the moment she awakens, she will die.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0428 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 22You would have me meet with Vala?
You must, if you’d awaken.
Mage, the spell that binds me lies beyond her powers. Is there an Elder with them?
I don’t know. Gom barely hid his dismay. After all the effort and sacrifice, Leana might still die?
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0428 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 21(Wycan) opened his pack and pulled a bite. But he didn’t settle down to sleep. Every slightest sound brought him to his feet, empty-handed, defenseless against tooth and claw, until he almost wished for Gom to come again. . . .
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0413 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 20-ii ’Tis my own first knife that I got when I had learned to throw. I long outgrew its heft … may it serve you well. . . .
Wycan slid the knife back in its sheath.
If you find your father, remember me.
For long, Wycan sat staring out into the dark, almost until morning.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0315 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 20-iAs Keke rose to dive again, Wycan reached out and touched her thought. Not mad, not mad at all. Only deeply anxious to the point of panic. About what? Danger! Beware! Danger! Wycan closed his eyes, caught a flash of boiling waters broken by jagged points.
Keke’s voice narrated by Anya Eleni.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0317 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 19[Keke]: “That . . . boy you took up with. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!”
Wycan? . . .
“You’ve seen him? He’s down?”
“Down and gone! Too far for you to catch.”
Keke’s voice narrated by Anya Eleni.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0328 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 18Before (Wycan), the track curved towards the right. There, to his left, the smaller one trailed off into mist. One last look he took up the slope behind him, then headed down towards the Dunderfosse.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0322 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 17Heat rushed up, breaking into sweat across his brow. Up under the peak, the song he’d heard coming from her bed: mothers sang it to soothe their newborn into sleep. . . . The strange and lovely shawl with which she’d bound him to her: a baby shawl! They’d taken it from her, just as they had taken him.
“You’ve guessed, I think,” said Ythac.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0326 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 16Maybe passing under [the entrance grille] had somehow dislodged the iron housing. If so, he was well and truly stuck, why he could die down there, except— His eye went to the torch. Those things did not last forever. Someone had set that flame up there, and not so very long ago. A shadow rounded the corner, slid into the light.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0327 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 15Ystrid’s scowl deepened. . . . “Explain yourself.”
Wycan gazed back at her, unflinching. The fire was still there, undiminished—but overlaid with something else. . . . Reaching out, he nudged her mind’s edge: Fear. Wycan watched her beat it down, watched her pride take over.
“Lock him up.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0321 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 14(Ystrid) broke off in mid-cry, a look of blank astonishment upon her face.
Wycan half-turned to see what she was staring at.
“Wycan?”
Too late, Wycan realized that she was gazing right at him
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0315 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 13Gom) pulled a light, sent it bobbing up above his head, and gazed around on utter devastation. Only the bed remained intact. On it lay a small gray-green bird, eyes closed, unmoving
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0329 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 12“You know—” Ystrid paused. “My father never let us up here. I would see her now.”
“Highness.” Ythac climbed onto the dais and drew aside the curtain, but even as Ystrid moved to join him, he let the curtain drop and whirled about. “She’s gone!”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0322 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 11“Oh, I see you now,” (Leana) said. “He’s called Wycan, you say? And a young man? I cannot believe it.”
“Here. Take my hand, we’ll go up so you can see for yourself.”
Leana reached out, grasped his fingers. The instant she did so, Gom cried out, his life force streaming out—and down.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0308 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 10Gom couldn’t move. Couldn’t speak. Was it a waking dream, coming upon him as they used to up on Windy Mountain? Out of nowhere, born of some urgent need, to warn him of some danger, or show him something hidden from his normal sight?
“Gom, what is it?”
Wycan’s faraway voice faded into echo.
Then everything went dark.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0221 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 9The massive gate ground inwards, just wide enough to let men through in single file. A fresh squad moved out smartly, the returning crew went in. The gate groaned shut. The bars screeched back into place. Gom and Wycan were inside.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0220 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 8“We must move out, heal wounds, repair the damage between the lake folk and us. Take chances, offer what we have for mortal folk out here. Share our knowledge, put our gifts at their service.”
"Yul Kinta? Helping mortals? Hah! It is not in our nature.”
“Yet I once heard that you would turn aside to save a stranded minnow.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0235 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 7“You mean you can hear what someone’s thinking?” Gom didn’t sound so friendly any more.
“Not words,” Wycan explained quickly. “More like a feeling or mood. I’m not very good at it yet. I only just found that I can do it.” “Oh, really.” Gom was looking positively hostile.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0227 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 6Gom pulled the stopper and dripped its fulsome contents onto Wycan’s tongue. . . .
Wycan swayed, grabbed for the table, and held on . . .
Gom watched him anxiously. . . . “Are you alright?”
Wycan looked up, glassy-eyed. . . . “I’m fine. . . . What is that muck?”
“I can’t say. At least, not exactly, you see—” Gom broke off. The spell had worked.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0218 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 5In frustration, Wycan reached inside his shirt, pulled out the tag and chain. Cupping the chain in his palm, he pointed to the woman’s clasped hands. Gom stared down in dismay. Whatever Kyr meant, the woman who had held that chain was certainly Leana up in that mountain. Alive—or dead?
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0222 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 4Going out the door, he paused. When Wycan was done bathing, there were questions to be asked—and answered. But how? Gom ran to the back of the workshop, fetched out chalk and slate, then ran downstairs.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0210 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 3Wycan was waiting. But what could Gom say? That he now knew to call him Althlafor? . . Leana had scored it through. . . . .Gom turned the tag over. Three words he found there, two together with a single one beneath. Ëalfgren, halfling, the first two words read. Under them, a short and simple name oft-used in the common tongue. Hal.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0228 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 2The helmet pressed against his chest, Wycan eyed Gom over the top of it.
“Well?”
Gom stared back. “Oh my,” he whispered.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0224 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 1-iiAt first glance, he didn’t seem so old, maybe a year or so younger than Wycan, but a second look at those eyes and he was not so sure. Frowning, the youth opened his mouth and let out a series of piercing shrieks. Wycan started, goosebumps popping out all over. Here was the second bird!
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-03-0220 minChetwin's SpaceWycan - Chapter 1-1Here begins book 8 of the series, following directly on from the end of book 7, The Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg.
One hour to dawn, they mustered: Feyrwarl, Vala, Hanselor, and two dozen fellow-pilgrims. Yul Kinta journeying back to the ruins of their old home. Their baggage stowed, they mounted their horses and rode swiftly like fleeting shadows from their fastness by the High Vargue’s edge, heading west.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2518 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 18Chorl in the mountain! And not through the Main Gate. There was only one other way in and that was by the flood gate down in the roots of the mountain that had not been opened in an age. How? And why? Wycan saw and groaned aloud.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2526 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 17The barracks passages swarmed with guards in full fighting gear. While some were racing up to man the upper levels, more were streaming down. Keeping close to the wall, Wycan watched and listened, and understood at last:
Chorl!
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2523 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 16Wycan looked around warily, scanning for signs of deeper shadows moving over the mountain face. “Are we safe now?” he said, as they passed the first rock shelf.
“Well, chorl have never come this high.”
There’s always a first time, thought Wycan uneasily.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2528 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 15Wait, Ythac had told him. Wait, wait by the fox and I’ll find you.
He would wait, all right. So would the fox. But the captain would never find either!
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2516 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 14The captain . . . laughed. "You youngsters. You know it all. Or . . . you think you do. What have you heard about chorl?”
Wycan told him of the tales passed around the dormitory after lights out. “They say chorl overran the mountain, but, well, I see that can’t be true, not with that gate.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2524 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 13(Wycan) breathed in the smell of rich moist loam. He never wanted to go back up into that mountain, never. In fact— . . . He didn’t have to. Thanks to Ythac, he would make his break that very day—maybe within the hour!
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2518 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 12-ii-ii Some way farther down, the track split into two. . . . another, narrower ridge curved off eastwards . . .
"Where does that lead?” . . .
“Nowhere we want to go.” . . .
“I don’t understand.” "Ythac sighed heavily. “There’s an old forest . . . we do not speak of it. . . . Now come.”
Wycan allowed himself to be led on. But glancing back along that trail he couldn’t help but wonder. . . .
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2514 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 12-iA pace or two beyond the gate, Wycan stopped. Before him was blind, black space. To either side, ragged torch flames fluttered in the wind. Behind them, the gate ground shut and its bars clanked into place.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2517 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 11When at last he fell asleep, he dreamed she was smiling down on him—her hair blew freely in the wind, he felt it brush his face—while above her, deep blue sky peeked through a dome of rich green leaves. . . .
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2523 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 10-iiCould that figure on the bed be the dead queen? No, for she was not Cryggmoren. Then who? And why was she so secret? He fell asleep still searching for an answer.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2514 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 10-i. . the main tunnel came to a sudden end—not against natural rock . . . but a wall of chiseled stones fit so tightly together there was not a crevice anywhere, not even for a spider. In the middle of that wall was a door sheathed in iron plate with three great hinges on the left side, and three massive bolts on the other rammed deep into its rock frame. Wycan eyed that gate intently. His way out at last?
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2514 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 9He remembered now how . . . he’d resolved to leave the mountain and find his folk, or at least, find out what had happened to them. . . . In that moment he resolved to . . . set out on his true quest, which was to find the place where he belonged.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2523 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 8Wycan gazed down at the dagger, at a loss. That Ythac should give his own first knife to him! . . . It was not until much later that it came to him: You surprised us all, Ythac had said, when the contest was over. Yet that knife had been right there in his bag!
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2215 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 7He (Wycan) put this reed to his lips and blew until his cheeks ached but all that came out was a rush of air.
“How? How would you do that?” he called out, quite forgetting to raise his hand
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2217 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 6"They (Edsyr and Bomac) want to catch you out in something they can take to Morok. . . . They want you locked away for good. Be careful: as I said, they’ll be watching you." For a moment, (Ystrid) stayed looking down on him, then, without warning, she bent, kissed his cheek, and hurried out.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2217 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 5Bomac pushed up, and thrusting Wycan down onto the mat stomped hard upon his ribs. There came four short, sharp cracks setting everyone a-gasp. Wycan cried out as pain shot through and dark closed in like a drawstring bag pulled tight.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2216 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 4When at last the guard unlocked the door and let him go, Wycan looked suitably penitent. But inwardly, he was a hawk about to fly!
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2232 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 3Reaching the cavern entrance, Gyral leaned out, craning up and down the passage. “Wycan? Wycan!” No reply. Gyral frowned. “Now where did he go so fast?” he muttered. Children, Gyral was looking straight at Wycan, standing so close they could have shaken hands, but the man didn’t see him.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2025 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 2Why do folk make their homes in such places, when they could live in comfort and plenty in a comfortable village like ours? I can’t tell you, yet they do. I suppose that home is where you were born and what you’re used to, and where you’re not kept standing on the mat.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-2018 minChetwin's SpaceThe Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg - Chapter 1The Dunderfosse’s western edge was bounded by a mountain range so high its icy caps were lost in cloud year-round. Gom’s spur led up the grandest peak of all, called Snawbyr Crygg. On gazing up at it you’d certainly be awestruck. You’d never dream, though, as even Gom did not, that it was hollow, and that people dwelt therein. . . .
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1930 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 22It was night now, the sky was clear, and they could see the stars. By their light, they saw a mist rising from what had been the forest floor. Shouldering the precious sacks, (they) paused to take a long look back towards the basin. Then moved on to find their people.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1818 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 21A youth was struggling up the pine-strewn slope. His face was streaked with blood, his hair was wild, his eyes dark with shock. At the sight of Feyrwarl poised upon the brink, he reached out and cried again: “Don’t go down there!”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1814 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 20Steeling her nerve, (Vala) filled the bowl with water, and, cupping her palms, lowered them into the bowl. The water swirled, went cloudy. . . . But instead of clearing, (it) darkened, then turned black.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1812 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 19No more Aelyth-Kintalyn, he’d told them. And no Án Telfahn, either. When he left, he must make sure of it—and he knew how! He strode to his desk, picked up a quill, and began to write.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1815 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 18-iiTime to go, (Urolf) told himself. Aelyth-Kintalyn is quite used up. But if he simply left, that would leave the place wide open for the exiles to come sneaking back. . . . He couldn’t have that. No more Aelyth-Kintalyn, he’d told them. And no Án Telfahn either. When he left, he must make sure of it—and he knew how! He strode to his desk, picked up a quill, and began to write.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1811 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 18-iMortals have such short lifespans, and even shorter memories. Now, let’s head off trouble at the gate—and work on our story as we go.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1810 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 17“Well, now hear my words: You shall this very day leave our domain and never set foot in it again on pain of death. Take him off.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1823 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 16The water swirled, and glowed, and slowly an image formed. Leana floated on her back, eyes closed, her hair uplifted, waving like lake weed in the currents. Her face was bone-white, her lips were black, and ripples played across her face.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1812 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 15The lake lord would never treat any woman as Urolf treated Leana. But the lords of Aelyth-Kintalyn have ever been thus. Proud—no: arrogant. Ruling purely at their own pleasure, acting only to gratify themselves, whatever the cost to others.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1810 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 14One glimpse she had of a pale face, mouth open on a shout. Then she, baby, harness and all were engulfed in a thunderous wall of water.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1812 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 13One glimpse she had of a pale face, mouth open on a shout. Then she, baby, harness and all were engulfed in a thunderous wall of water.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1808 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 12Leana gazed around at all the gear laid out, ready. And thought of all the endless days stretching before them. “I have to go, I must,” she murmured. A short while later, she was out the door and slipping down the Concourse toward the trail.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1726 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 11Leana knelt by the cradle. “If Urolf makes you his heir, I’ll stay for your sake,” she whispered. “But if not . . . ”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1724 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 10 “Oh, my dear. I am so sorry.” (Vala) sighed. “You couldn’t have guessed just how hard it would be, leaving home to live with strangers.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1718 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 8“My lord Urolf bears the news well. But there’s ill-feeling among the clan, and he knows it. Whatever some say in public, they won’t accept an heir of mortal blood.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1715 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 7 - Part TwoVala smiled. . . . “It speaks to all who live in this place: Yul Kinta, human, and any in between.”
Leana’s color came and went. “What do you mean?”
“Come, I think you know full well. You are with child.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1719 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 7 - Part One“We reach An Telfahn through a portal deep in these woods—”
“Portal? You mean a door?”
“Not—exactly.”
“Oh, I see. It’s invisible, like the boundary gates.”
“Not at all. In fact”—a hint of mischief touched his face–“I’ll show it to you tomorrow.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1713 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 6Turning from her casement, Leana went to her harp and played sad songs of love gone wrong, the plaintive notes drifting out over the treetops and up towards the stars. . . .
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1716 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 5Vala sighed. “You dismissed your ladies.”
Leana shrugged . . . “They hate me.”
“They resent you.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1714 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 4At the far end of the Concourse, sunlight marked an open space. Leana glimpsed bright colors: the clansfolk gathered there to greet her. Her heart began to hop and blood rushed to her face. Then there they were.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1723 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 3“I do not speak of titles and agreements, my lord, but of Leana’s heart.” Her head came up, her eyes hardened. “Hear me now and hear me well: if you should ever cause her grief, you’ll answer to me. Good day, my lord.” Nasidda bowed her head in formal courtesy and strode away.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1624 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn - Chapter 2Leochtor nodded briskly. “ . . . If we move with all speed, a marriage might take place—”
“When?”
A pause. “Two years.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1616 minChetwin's SpaceThe Fall of Aelyth-KintalynWith 'Gerrad's Quest', the narrative shifts from Gom's viewpoint to that of Hester, an old village woman, telling some of the tales about the wizard Gom to enthralled children gathered at her hearth. With this sixth book, we go back to the time right after the Battle of Sundor, the year Gerrad is born. Urolf, lord of Aelyth-Kintalyn, is bringing his bride, Leana, into his secret domain far to the west....
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1626 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 21The next morning, Pioter was gone from the citadel and though Gerrad and Carrick searched hard and long, he was nowhere to be found.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1615 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 20“My wife and son wish me to let you speak before you go below. Have you anything to say?”
“Since you ask, milord. I have.”
“Well, then, speak,” Leochtor said. “But I warn you that nothing you say can change the outcome.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1616 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 19Pioter pointed to Crooker, his high voice ringing through the hall: “That man killed my father!”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1619 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 18“So shall you go home now?” Gerrad said quickly, clinging to the moment.
“No. . . .”
“So when shall we meet? What’s the surprise?”
“Wait and see.” Gom’s small shape sparkled, then vanished.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1624 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 17“We did it, Dregg.” As Gerrad said that, four men burst from the tunnel, coughing and hawking in full cry. “You certainly did,” cried one. “And we gets our ransom after all!”
Crooker.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1621 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 16Crooker burst in, seized Dregg by the shoulder and shook him roughly. “Hey—wake up. Gremla’s badly hurt and out for blood.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1625 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 15Now Leth pulled his knife and ran at the woman, striking her in the arm. As the blade pierced her flesh, she let forth a loud cry and hurling herself against the window pane, shattered the glass. Then before Nasidda’s astonished eyes she turned to mist and streamed out through the gap.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1619 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 13“ . . . Gremla’s the one I watch out for. She told me to thrash you, and thrash you I will, and when I’ve done, you’ll wish that you were dead!”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1625 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 12Gerrad heard a scuffle, a crack of bone on rock, then boots receding rapidly. Dregg’s great pudgy face hung over him. “Up, boy. Gremla wants to see you. Now.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1627 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 11[Essie] was gone but a moment before she came scurrying back upstairs red-faced and flustered. “As if things aren’t bad enough there are redcoats coming. Lord Lugen’s just received a ransom note and there’s a warrant out for Leth!”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1619 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 10“Listen: I’m going after Master Gerrad . . . Tell Essie to get you four good men and bring them to the old smokehouses, they’ll know the way. Come quick and quiet, for Master Gerrad’s sake,” Carrick warned, then raced away. Comments on Gerrad’s Quest from a Young Reader.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1616 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 9For a moment, he was falling, chill air fanning his face. Then with a shock that snatched his breath and numbed his thought, he hit the icy waters of the lake.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1616 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 8“. . . .My hat off to him for breaking free of that place and coming here on his own. But we both know that right now the Quarter is a dangerous place for anyone, let alone Leochtor’s son and heir.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1621 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 7In the doorway stood a woman: tall, masses of black hair, thin red mouth unsmiling, deep-shadowed eyes. Gerrad went cold. She was looking right at him.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1626 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 6Then, as the man seized Pioter and swung him around, Gerrad called out again at the top of his voice: “Hey! Let go! Let go of him I say!”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1623 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 5"The brat’s not here." . . . .
Now came the scrape of boxes being dragged aside. Then a triumphant bellow.
“Not here? Not here, you say, Dregg? Well just you come and lookee here!”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1615 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 4Maybe, he thought drowsily, he’d take the boy some food and clothing. The idea of going back, of meeting the boy again pleased and excited him. Another grand adventure, yes! “Whatever Leth says, I’ll find a way.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1619 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 3. . . Gerrad staggered back against a stack of crates and the thief reared over him, something silver flashing in his hand. A knife, and aimed at Gerrad’s chest!
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1611 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 1This book bridges the two halves of the 9-book series and provides our first outside view of Gom.
Ten years after the Battle of Sundor, Gom is long out of sight, holed up in Harga's house, learning magic.
For his tenth birthday, Leochtor's son, Gerrad, wants to meet his legendary hero....
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1614 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's Quest - Chapter 2Suddenly, a tall youth burst through from behind and snatched the purse from the man’s hands. . . .
“Help, my purse!” the man cried. . . .
Gerrad glanced back. The thief was getting away. He ought to follow him but what about Leth? Oh! Oh! What to do?
What would Gom do? Gerrad took off pell-mell down the cobbled slope.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1620 minChetwin's SpaceGerrad's QuestThis book bridges the two halves of the 9-book series and provides our first outside view of Gom.
Ten years after the Battle of Sundor, Gom is long out of sight, holed up in Harga's house, learning magic.
For his tenth birthday, Leochtor's son, Gerrad, wants to meet his legendary hero....
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1614 minChetwin's SpaceThe Starstone - Chapter 24Anja's voice read by Anya Eleni.
“You don’t understand,” he cried. “You cannot practise magery without the Hierarchy’s consent. Without their official scroll I’ll be hounded from one end of Ulm to the other!”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1615 minChetwin's SpaceThe Starstone - Chapter 23Keke and Anja voices read by Anya Eleni.
Gom knelt, looking down at the still, warlike figure, recalling how he had cupped its image in his hands, this figure and all it represented. His life’s companion. . . . This grim, gruff warrior had saved him . . . had it cost the man his life? Gom grasped the helmet with its pale green crest and carefully lifted it off.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1620 minChetwin's SpaceThe Starstone - Chapter 22Keke’s & Anja’s voices narrated by Anya Eleni.
“Well!” Katak smiled. “Here I scratch for pebbles—while you hold the one true key.”
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1617 minChetwin's SpaceThe Starstone - Chapter 21Keke’s voice narrated by Anya Eleni.
He stood gratefully, feeling the strength of the man’s arm. . . .
“How,” Gom began.
"Oh, shall we sit in the mud and have a reckoning?" The warrior’s plumes bobbed in the wind. "Look behind you!"
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-02-1629 minChetwin's SpaceWelcome to Chetwin's SpaceI explain what you'll find in this space - most of my books and maybe a video or two.
Music: Zenic by Yosua Wisnu
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grace-chetwin/message2021-01-2305 min