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thought. He knew, when the wolfwalker returned, that none of them would
ask.




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Silver Moons, Black SteelтАФHarper, Tara K - Wolf 05




II
Talon Drovic neVolen


Life is fire;
Fire, ambition;
Ambition, tragedy;
Tragedy, life.


тАФfrom тАЬCircles,тАЭ by Wile neRaya, Kiren songster




It was near dawn, and the shreds of fog that clung to the low hills waited
with Talon in silence. Four of the nine moons floated overhead, but their
fading light no longer bleached the ground between the shadows. Instead,
pale dawn rinsed the moonlight to a dull gray and threw the small valley
into harsher darkness.
Talon stared at the faint, gray ribbons of road. Long ago, they had been half
built from new rock and half from the slag-stone of the Ancients. Now they
echoed with the quiet, and the echoes settled like night spiders along
TalonтАЩs broad and bony shoulders. It was late summer, but he had been cold
for over a month. Now even the streets gave him chills. It was as though he
stared at headstones, not hundred-year-old sections of paving.
He glanced around, making sure that no gear glinted. With DrovicтАЩs men
and women, it was an automatic, not a necessary check. These riders were

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experienced, skilled, hardened. Most had three or more years of scouting or
fighting; some had more than six; and two had more than a hundred. Two-
thirds had joined Drovic after the fight that had left DrovicтАЩs band
decimated and Talon more dead than alive, but some, like Sojourn and
Darity, had been with TalonтАЩs father long enough that they seemed to