What is in my heart, if not the desire for home? Undoubtedly, I pray for a fixed place in the world like the stars in the sky and the stones within the earth. His question rings in my ears, tolling like the groan of the bronze bells of the island fastness where once I been loved. What do you do now?
The challenge in his eyes is clear cut as diamonds on jeweller's cloth, the edge to his words almost rattling like a coin upon a table. What are you willing to do? How far are you willing to go to?
-Extract from Val 7, BOOK 9 of The Thirteen Kingdoms series
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