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Circling the Skies
They’d entered the Hinterlands.
Undoubtedly, this man, Valen, was telling the rest of Ravenna’s party this very thing. She was too far away to hear. It was better for her, for them all, for her to remain where she was, circling the skies. But she knew the moment they’d entered this strange land. No one had to tell her.
There was powerful magic here. Ravenna herself was experiencing it for the first time, as everything south of Torrin’s Pass had been a world beyond her known one. When she was younger—old enough to understand, too young yet to relate—her mother began her training with the histories of the kingdom. She was to experience her own histories later, and of course, she never did. Yet one more failure for Ravenna to add to her growing list. But although the
