Dazedreck

Chapter 1 The woman stood on the gallery, gazing out at the courtyard and the fountain that bubbled quietly in its center. It was just after dawn and birds were singing, twittering as they leapt from tree to bush to tree. She had risen with the birds – the better to escape the nightmares. Fire, smoke, laughing men on horseback – not just men, laughing elves. Elves. Elves who groped her and mocked her, called her dh’oine. A dh’oine whore. The black-haired leader of the elves sneered and told her that her magic was nothing compared to theirs. Magic? Did she have magic? She looked at her hands, remembering the fire and