Zelia is a priestess, with sky-blue skin and stranger tempers. Daughter of a ritual union between a human and Air's flighty elemental queen, she lives abandoned in the College of Healers. When a man dies because of Zelia's rebellion, she is accused of the crime and declared renegade. Ares is an opportunist, an adventurer and a fugitive. A sword for hire. Neither elf nor human, he is another outsider, another fugitive, welcomed by no one, mortal or otherwise. Misfit and outcast meet. Sparks fly. Together they discover they possess unimaginable powers of sorcery which they will need to combat the scourge that threatens the land. For the evil sorcerer Queb, long thought dead, has returned...
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Drunk from the night's liberties and libations, drunk with exhilaration, elemental fire reeled. More flames joined the capering spinning circle as the last of the geysers died.
Faster and faster and faster!Until they had drawn together in a single leaping pyre. The roots around them deflated, laying flat and dead upon the sand which no longer churned from the battering rain; but curled under the broiling heat of flame. As the dance continued, the dry roots caught like kindling.
Pop, pop! Poof!The branches gave up the last of their water, withered and scorched, and finally detonated with the technicolor splendor of a wizard's best fireworks display.
Drunk from the night's liberties and libations, drunk with exhilaration, elemental fire reeled. More flames joined the capering spinning circleas the last of the geysers died.
Faster and faster and faster!Until they had drawn together in a single leaping pyre. The roots around them deflated, laying flat and dead upon the sand which no longer churnedfrom the battering rain; but curled under the broiling heat of flame. As the dance continued, the dry roots caught like kindling.
Pop, pop! Poof!The branches gave up the last of their water, withered and scorched, andfinally detonated with the technicolour splendour of a wizard's bestfireworks display.
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