![]() Soon after, Roger of Conté, a powerful mage, comes to Corus in order to teach the pages and squires how to use magic. Only after all of the city's healers are exhausted does Jonathan, the heir to the kingdom, fall fatally ill.Īlanna uses her magic to save Jonathan. However, he manages to convince her to stay.Īfter a time, an unnatural fever, one that drains healers of their power and can kill them, falls upon Corus. After a few days being a page, she decides that this is too hard and she'd rather go home, and tells Coram Smythesson, her manservant, so. She particularly becomes friends with Jonathan of Conté, Gary of Naxen, and the King of the Rogues, George Cooper. Alanna cuts her hair and disguises herself with the name Alan of Trebond and goes to Corus to try for knighthood.Īlanna makes both friends and enemies at the palace immediately. ![]() ![]() The twins switch places, and Thom goes to the temple where Alanna was to go, planning to study sorcery. However, this is what their father, Alan of Trebond, a man absorbed completely in his studies since his wife's death, has ordered for them.Īlanna and Thom take matters into their own hands. Who told me to talk to Claire" -Dedication taken from the Kindle edition Plot Īlanna of Trebond does not want to be sent away to learn to be a lady any more than her brother Thom wants to be a knight. ![]()
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