The Grey Tower

"Do you think these pots will ever be clean enough for her taste?" Avander asked, leaning over to speak quietly once he was certain the Mistress was out of earshot -- better yet, once she was out of the room altogether (he certainly did not want to be heard by the Mistress for saying such things ...

His own broad smile was inevitable. How exciting! Gaidin. That must surely be a term for a warder, then, and that meant that this woman in front of him was a warder. A Gaidin! Perhaps she would be one of his teachers? A woman so small as she must surely be a fierce fighter to be a warder, clever and ...

The grey light of dawn was just beginning to illuminate the city of Hama Valon. It had grown up around the Grey Tower, and the Grey Tower had surged after the fall of the White as a place where men and women could channel. Perhaps that was an overly romantic view of what had happened. But it did ...