Orbit

1 IT BEGINS IN DARKNESS Effigies of the Earth King festooned the city around Castle Sylvarresta. Everywhere the effigies could be seen - hanging beneath shopwindows, standing upright against the walls of the city gates, or nailed beside doorways - stationed any place where the Earth King might...

CHAPTER 1 THE PURGE It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow city streets because it is grieved by what it finds there. On the day of the Purge it whistled amongst the swaying masts in the Marina, rushed through the Western Gates and screamed...