Paksworld

I’m first-drafting on the third book now, while doing revisions on the second, and something’s come up that you’ll see hints of in the second book.  But I don’t think it’s a spoiler, really….more like storm clouds on the horizon.  (I’ve tried converting the selection from Word to .txt, but Word being Word can’t be sure all the formatting’s really gone, so there may be a fast edit following to remove it in WordPress…I can’t see the stuff until it’s published. )

Location:  northeastern Tsaia

Cracolnya is reporting to Arcolin about some unexpected visitors.

”What I have to report, though, is even stranger. One of the patrols ran into a party of gnomes, a day’s march north of here.”

“Gnomes! There aren’t any gnome princedoms up here. They’re all down south, along the flanks of the Dwarfmounts.”

“That’s what I thought, too,” Cracolnya said. “But it’s not what the gnomes think. Apparently this was once theirs–the hills of northern Pargun and some of the hills Kieri thought were his.”

(And no, trying save the snippet in .txt didn’t work, and I could not see the formatting blocks until I published this.  I think they’re all gone now.)