Chapter Eighteen
Ynara knew the Vanse family a little. Sayfer Vanse was a strong summoner, his wife only a little less so. Orillin, as expected, followed in his parents’ footsteps and had been enrolled in Summoner School at a young age. He was already shaping up to be one of his generation’s stars.
But that didn’t explain why he was attracting the attention of an obscure university faculty as far away as the realm of Nimdre. Dev’s brief missive wasn’t exactly clear. Being Dev, it hadn’t occurred to him to explain how or why he’d left her house, where he’d gone to, or what he was doing now. His scrawled mess of a note merely babbled about some connection between Orillin and Llandry, saying that they shared a great many ancestors. Something to do with Llan’s draykon shift? he had written.
