Many Paths
Page 29
"Your mountains are beautiful. I have seldom seen such richly timbered woods, and some of the prospects are breathtaking."
Felisan looked pleased. "You have yet to see the best of them, having arrived from the south. Ask Eliani to show you the Three Shades. It is a high fall of water not far from here, a very pretty spot, with some interesting legends attached to it."
Turisan's gaze shifted to Eliani and he gave a solemn nod. "I would be honored if Lady Eliani would show it me."
Eliani felt color rising to her cheeks. No one had called her "lady" before. That honorific was reserved to governors and their heirs, the masters of guildhalls, and other persons of high responsibility. She was not yet formally her father's nextkin.
She returned Turisan's nod, then glanced away and took a sip of wine. She did not know why she should find Lord Jharan's son any more disconcerting than she had found a nameless high-ranking Greenglen, but so it was. Perhaps because she had always thought of the people of House Jharanin as stately beings, dwelling in luxurious palaces and occupied with lofty concerns of governance.
Turisan did not fit this picture at all. What governor-elect of any self-importance would undertake a day's journey on foot and alone?
She would. She laughed and choked a little on her wine.
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The Betrayal, March 2009, Del Rey Books. More about the book and links for ordering at aelven.com.
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