Valdemar 11 - [Owl Mage 03] - Owlknight

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Still Missing
...
I still don't know what happened to them. I meant to go out and hunt the old trap-lines to find out—or try—but I never did.
Guilt wracked Darian for a moment with a physical spasm.
Get hold of yourself. There's no reason to feel guilty. After all this time, two years wouldn't make any difference. Get hold of yourself. You did not forget, you thought of them constantly. You had too much else to do, including growing up.
If his parents weren't dead, then there was only one other thing that could have happened to prevent them from returning to him.
They had to have been caught in a Change-Circle. And if they had survived that experience, there was no telling what had happened to them. What they might have become.
Or where they were.
Darian's duties to his homeland, his adopted people, his friends and mentor had been fulfilled, and then some. It was more than time for him to use his own tracking skills and resolve, and find out what he could about the past.
NOVELS BY
MERCEDES LACKEY
available from DAW Books:
 
THE HERALDS OF VALDEMAR
ARROWS OF THE QUEEN
ARROW'S FLIGHT
ARROW'S FALL
 
THE LAST HERALD-MAGE
MAGIC'S PAWN
MAGIC'S PROMISE
MAGIC'S PRICE
 
THE MAGE WINDS
WINDS OF FATE
WINDS OF CHANGE
WINDS OF FURY
 
THE MAGE STORMS
STORM WARNING
STORM RISING
STORM BREAKING
 
VOWS AND HONOR
THE OATHBOUND
OATHBREAKERS
OATHBLOOD
 
THE COLLEGIUM CHRONICLES
FOUNDATION
 
BY THE SWORD
BRIGHTLY BURNING
TAKE A THIEF
EXILE'S HONOR
EXILE'S VALOR
 
VALDEMAR ANTHOLOGIES:
SWORD OF ICE
SUN IN GLORY
CROSSROADS
MOVING TARGETS
*
 
Written with
LARRY DIXON:
 
THE MAGE WARS
THE BLACK GRYPHON
THE WHITE GRYPHON
THE SILVER GRYPHON
 
DARIAN'S TALE
OWLFLIGHT
OWLSIGHT
OWLKNIGHT
 
OTHER NOVELS
 
THE BLACK SWAN
 
THE DRAGON JOUSTERS
JOUST
ALTA
SANCTUARY
AERIE
 
THE ELEMENTAL MASTERS
THE SERPENT'S SHADOW
THE GATES OF SLEEP
PHOENIX AND ASHES
THE WIZARD OF LONDON
RESERVED FOR THE CAT
 
 
And don't miss:
THE VALDEMAR COMPANION
Edited by John Helfers and Denise Little
 
*Coming soon from DAW Books
Copyright © 1999 by Mercedes R. Lackey and Larry Dixon.
All Rights Reserved.
 
 
For color prints of Jody Lee's paintings, please contact:
The Cerridwen Enterprise
P.O. Box 10161
Kansas City, MO 64111
1-800-825-1281
 
 
Time Line by Pat Tobin
 
DAW Book Collectors No. 1131
 
 
All characters and events in this book are fictitious.
All resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental.
 
 
 
 
 
 
First Paperback Printing, November 2000.
eISBN : 978-1-101-12732-2
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OFFICIAL TIMELINE FOR THE HERALDS OF VALDEMAR SERIES
 
by Mercedes Lackey
 
Sequence of events by Valdemar reckoning
One
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shrill whistle caught Darian's attention, and he looked up and over the lake of k'Valdemar Vale, shading his eyes with his hand. As he expected, he saw Snowfire waving at him from his “balcony,” three-quarters of the way up the side of the cliff that edged the far side of the lake.
Actually, it would have been more accurate to say that he saw a tiny figure with white hair waving from the balcony—at this distance he couldn't have said for certain that it was Snowfire. It wasn't Nightwind, though; her hair was still raven-wing black.
The sky above the cliff shimmered with a light, pearly opalescence, although it was perfectly possible to see the clouds and blue sky beyond the new Veil, a magic shield that protected k'Valdemar.
I would never have believed we'd get a Veil so quickly,
he marveled once again.
If anyone had told me that the Heartstone would support a Veil this soon, I would have told him he was wildly optimistic. It
wasn't a
full
Veil, which would have excluded all weather; this simply kept things at a constant, pleasant temperature, no matter the season. Rain came through, and snow fell to the ground as rain once it passed through the Veil, so they still got some weather. They couldn't do without roofs
yet.
He whistled back at Snowfire, and waved his arm in the direction of the Council House, the newly built structure that housed all Joint Council sessions. It wasn't much of a structure; now that the Vale had protection, it didn't need to be much of a structure. It had “walls” of wicker work covered in vines, a roof that was half skylight and half slate, a floor of natural turf which flourished in the light. For furniture, in deference to the Valdemar contingent of the Joint Council, there were chairs and a table, but the chairs were of woven grapevine and wicker with soft cushions, and the table was a compass-rose shape of tree-trunk sections, topped with three rising layers of polished wood with one section for each member of the Council. The Tayledras of k'Valdemar, of course, felt no need for formal furniture, and neither did the tribesmen of the Ghost Cat clan.
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