Аннотация
Kate Elliott
Spirit Gate
BOOK ONE OF CROSSROADS
PART ONE: SHADOWSIn the Year of the Black Eagle
In the Hundred
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ON A HOT summer's day like today Flirt liked to fly straight up along the shoreline of the river, huge wings huffing against the wind. The draft off the running water cooled eagle and reeve, and gave the raptor a chance to get close to any unsuspecting deer come out to drink. This time of day, early afternoon, they didn't see a single creature along the shore except once a man chopping wood who had flung up a hand at the sound, poised, listening. When he saw them he relaxed and went back to his work as Flirt's vast shadow shuddered along the rocks. His brindled hound barked, then hushed, ears flat, cowering, as Flirt answered with a piercing cry of her own. She didn't like challenges.
Marit grinned. The man kept chopping and was soon left behind.
Woodland spread up on both sides of the Liya Pass, hills covered so thickly wit...
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