I could be in Crossroads with hours to spare. Capped with paving stones all the way from London, it was a fast, easy ride. “It’s either the track over the hills-slow going and dangerous in the fog-or the road to Quayside.”Įarth wizards kept up the Quayside Road, along the shore, as a favour to the Water Guild. But if you’re that hot to get there…” He shrugged. “To get to Crossroads,” the ostler said, “I’d go west, around the hills.” The next morning, standing in the inn’s stable door with a grey wall of fog outside, I couldn’t avoid it. When the news he was dead reached me, a day and a half down the coast, I left my gear in the smithy, promised the master to be back inside a week, and rode north through low clouds and drizzle, too wrapped up in memories and worries to think much about the road. We buried my uncle the last week of August, the year after the Fire Warlock retired.
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The events and characters portrayed herein are imaginary and are not intended to refer to specific places, events, or living persons. She lives in Wellington, in a house overflowing with books and jigsaw puzzles, and wishes she had more time time to spend universe hopping. She moved to New Zealand in 2009, gained dual citizenship, and now works as a software developer in the movie industry. Barbara Howe lives on the third rock from the sun, while her imagination travels the universe and beyond.īorn in the US (North Carolina), she spent most of her adult life in New Jersey, working in the software industry, on projects ranging from low-level kernel ports to multi-million-dollar financial applications.
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