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By Tanya Huff

The Bards of Shkoder carry the rustic jointly. They, and the basic spirits they Sing—earth, air, hearth, and water—bring the inside track of the ocean to the mountains, information of the mountains to the plains. they provide their humans, from peasant to king, a tune in common.

Annice is a unprecedented expertise, in a position to Sing all 4 quarters, yet her brother, the newly enthroned King Theron, sees her request to check on the Bardic corridor as a betrayal. To his shock, Annice accepts his stipulations, renouncing her royal blood and swearing to stay childless in order to not jeopardize the road of succession. She walks clear of political obligations, royal privilege and her family.

Ten years later, Annice has turn into the Princess Bard and her genuine lifestyles is set to turn into the complete opposite of the overwrought ballad her fellow scholars on the Bardic corridor wrote approximately her. Now, she's at the run from the Royal Guards with the Duc of Ohrid, the daddy of her unborn baby, either one of them in charge of treason—one of them unjustly accused. to save lots of the Duc's lifestyles, they'll need to go the rustic, be capable of maintain from strangling one another, and defeat an enemy too broken for even a Bard's track to arrive.

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And that, Marcia hoped, would be the end of theDarkenesse in the Tower. As Septimus stared at his thumb, which was now twice its normal size and turning a nasty purple, he heard Marcia's study door open. "I'm off, Septimus," said Marcia purposefully. "I've got to go and pick up another part of theShadowSafe . I told old Weasal I'd be down this morning. It's almost the last piece. We've only got theStopper to collect after this, Septimus, and that will be that. " "Aargh," Septimus groaned. Marcia peered suspiciously around the door.

Just don't let those spiders out anywhere near me," she warned him. Septimus jumped down the steps, shaking the jar at her as he went past. He went over to the Well on the edge of the courtyard, and very carefully, he tipped the spiders out of the jar. They all landed in the bucket. The hairy spider had another quick snack and started climbing back up the rope. The three remaining spiders watched the hairy one leave and decided to stay in the bucket. "Sometimes, Jen," said Septimus as he joined Jenna by the steps, "I think those spiders just go straight back up to the Library again.

Carefully they stepped out onto the terrace. It was then that they heard Sarah Heap scream. 02 ================================== Justone little message rat," Sarah Heap was saying tearfully to the dismounted dark horseman, as Jenna and Septimus reached the door to the walled kitchen garden. The man had his back to them. He stood awkwardly, holding on to his horse with one hand and patting Sarah, who had thrown her arms around his neck, with the other. Sarah Heap looked small and almost frail beside the man.

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