Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.

“I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago.We all did.…”

“We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.”

“It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game…”

“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends…”