![]() ![]() Sometimes one voice, sometimes many, echoed among the trees. ![]() One summer day, when the flowers in the meadow had all bloomed and faded, she sat near her flock in the shade of an old oak at the forest’s edge. In wintertime, the hungry wolves came in search of sheep, and every year they killed at least a few.Īll her life the girl had feared the forest. The forest was a dark and dangerous place, the abode of wolves. All around the cottage were meadows where they grazed their sheep, and in the springtime flowers of great beauty grew there. In ancient days, when only women were warriors, lived a young girl and her mother in a cottage at the edge of the forest. ![]() To make matters worse, the Lady Merin assigns her the position of companion, little more than a personal servant, to a woman who came to Merin’s house, seemingly out of nowhere, the previous winter, and this stranger wants nothing to do with Tamras. In Book I of the trilogy, Tamras arrives in Merin’s house to begin her apprenticeship as a warrior, but her small stature causes many, including Tamras herself, to doubt that she will ever become a competent swordswoman. Since she never did find the story she was looking for all those years ago, she decided to write it. When she was a child, the author happily identified with all the male heroes she read about in stories that began, "Once upon a time, a young man went out to seek his fortune." But she would have been delighted to discover even one story like that with a female protagonist. ![]()
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