The Grey Tower

For nearly three full days, Shailar carried on as if nothing had happened.

Lessons and chores and outside assignments filled those days, so that Shailar barely had time to worry. A particularly helpful Grey sister had noted her lack of familiarity with Westlander nations, customs, and nobility; she ...

In her mountain home in Shara, the winters had been harsh. Though she hadn’t been allowed outside the walls, snow would coat the streets, sliding down the tops of sloped roofs to pile up around the buildings. Ayyad would melt the snow to clear paths, but inevitably the water would freeze again, the ...

Shailar told Denara Sedai that she was a runaway - true - from Ebou Dar - false. She said she’d been on the road for a couple of months - false; that her parents were powerful and would be searching for her - sort of true; that she’d learned to hide her tattoo on accident - also partially true. The ...