Chapter 16
Panora’s WarPanora was not at the inauguration of Kyra as Lord of the Sun. She was in the far west visiting Hawk-Eagle’s brother, Nya.
Nya had not seen his brother since they had been children and he knew nothing and cared nothing about him, his land or his people. Nya’s people were mountain nomads and lived wild and scattered, coming down to the settled communities in the valleys only to raid and take what they needed for the winter months, sometimes trading their furs, sometimes not.
It was Vann, Kyra's friend, who had first brought Nya to the notice of Panora. His own family had suffered greatly at the hands of Nya and his rough people, and it was in telling the story of one of Nya’s raids that Vann mentioned he was one of two sons of a man called White Hawk. Panora knew t
