![]() ![]() Hence, I was a bit leery about starting the Emelan books so late in the game, but I knew I would always feel a little guilty if I didn't read them, so I did. Like every other girl I know, I read and loved Tamora Pierce's Tortall books when I was ten or eleven, but I have to admit that they have not withstood the test of time very well. She weaves three strands of thread- a green, a gray, and a red- together to make a light, which sustains her until she is found by a mysterious man named Nico, who brings her to Winding Circle, a place of knowledge and of magic. As the light in her oil lamp goes out, she summons the courage to attempt a trick the Trader nurse once showed her. ![]() In a storeroom in the Palace of Black Swans, Lady Sandrilene fa Toren sits and knows that she is dying- the nurse who brought her there, Pirisi, has been killed and no one else can find her. ![]()
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