Drenai Saga 02 - The King Beyond the Gate Page 35
RAYVAN’S RULE WAS a popular one, and the Drenai soon forgot the years of Ceska’s terror. The machines at Graven were destroyed. Lake re-formed the Dragon, proving himself a skilled and charismatic general. Scaler married Ravenna, Rayvan’s daughter, and took up his position as Earl of Dros Delnoch, Warden of the North.
Tenaka Khan fought many civil wars, absorbing each defeated tribe into his army. Renya bore him three sons.
Ten years to the month after Ceska’s defeat, Renya died in childbirth. Tenaka Khan gathered his army around him and rode south to Dros Delnoch.
Scaler, Lake, and Rayvan were waiting for him.
And the gates were closed.
