Chapter 18
The Storm Caller
Rendyr had come for her. He was inside her head. Only the distance and her solid will had kept him away. And if he was in her thoughts...
Come now. Come alone. I don’t have to tell you what happens if you don’t, do I?
Rendyr didn’t hold the same fears as the other Ravenwoods. War didn’t frighten him. She suspected it thrilled him. She’d tried to tell her mother, to warn her that if Rendyr became High Priest, he would bring an end to it all, but her mother dismissed her words as overly and unnecessarily dramatic. But Naryssa had not spent sleepless nights listening to Rendyr’s unhinged rants about the ‘new way’ and the ‘new order’ coming when he no longer had to heed his mother. When he had a wife he could crush under heel.
Rhosyn slipped quietly out of the
