Here’s a very short snippet (there are spoiler-cooties all over what comes before and after.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But the enmity between some elves and some humans is still going strong in Lyonya and not all the secrets have been excavated even yet.\u00a0\u00a0 This comes early in the second third of the book, at a point where Kieri is increasingly frustrated at not being able to access all of his innate magery.\u00a0 Recall that he has inherited magery from three sources: elves, magelords, and Old Humans.\u00a0\u00a0 At this point he is able to access two of the three–elven and magelord, but needs the third.\u00a0\u00a0Where: Chaya, Lyonya<\/p>\n
Who:\u00a0 Caernith is one of the western elves left to help Kieri and Arian with elven magery and also protect them from iynisin attack, if there’s another one.\u00a0 The elves are not King’s Squires, but they stick close to Kieri for his protection, especially if he leaves the palace. \u00a0 Caernith is speaking to Kieri, in a conversation about magery and its potential uses.<\/p>\n
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“No age is easy,” Caernith said.\u00a0 “But this one seems like to be exceptionally hard.\u00a0 It is our shame that we cannot help you learn what you need to know.\u00a0 If there were Old Humans yet in this world–”<\/p>\n
We are not gone.\u00a0 We do not talk with elf-kind.<\/span><\/p>\n …………………………………………………..<\/p>\n Kieri knows that voice.\u00a0 If Kieri really wants Old Human magery, he’s going to have to deal with the same one he met underground at Midwinter in Echoes.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a very short snippet (there are spoiler-cooties all over what comes before and after.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But the enmity between some elves and some humans is still going strong in Lyonya and not all the secrets have been excavated even yet.\u00a0\u00a0 This comes early in the second third of the book, at a point where Kieri […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippet","tag-snippet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}