The Priory of the Orange Tree

Against all odds, he looked upon the Desert of the Unquiet Dream.

when Kate returns, bid her go back to the Lord Chamberlain. She will tell him that Mistress Ead Duryan has been raised to the position of Lady of the Bedchamber.”

The fool in Ead wanted to take her by the hand and get her away from this room, but that fool was too much of a coward to act

young and fragile woman who carried a thousand-year legacy on her shoulders.

I now pronounce these two souls joined in the holy state of companionship in the eyes of the Saint,

Forgive me, Kitston Glade.”

And there, at last, was Kit. There were the eyes Loth knew, their laughter gone. The mouth, so quick to smile, that would never smile again

The Draconic plague was inside him

Cold scale brushed her fingers. She dared not look. She must. When she did, two eyes, as bright as fireworks, stared back from the face of a Lacustrine dragon

The tunic was watersilk. Blue as sapphires. And on the back of the surcoat was the dragon emblem, embroidered in gold thread.