Songs of the Earth

Beaten to a pulp, only able to stand by sheer will power, Gair faces his accuser, the church--the very institution he has served as a Knight for the last ten years. His crime? Witchcraft. The problem? He didn't plan to use magic, but the song of the earth found him at age eleven. Once he experienced the thrill of the song, he couldn't ignore it even though his upbringing taught him of its evil. And The Book of Eador leaves no doubt to his penalty: Suffer ye not the life of a witch.

Forces beyond Gair's understanding are at work, though, and the Preceptor sentences him to branding as a witch and orders him to leave the city gates before sundown never to return.

Did I mention he was beaten to a pulp and unable to stand? Then, of course, there's the branding that came next. Sundown approaches, and a mysterious stranger takes Gair under wing. As an angry Elder pursues Gair determined to carry out a sentence of death, the stranger helps Gair escape the city...

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