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For my beloved parents,
My wonderful husband, and my entire extended family,
For my friend, author Paul Witcover,
For Betsy Mitchell and Martha Millard,
And for Lizzie, who was the manuscript's first reader.



Cecilia
Dart-Thornton



CONTENTS

1—Foundling
2—The House of the Stormriders: Tale and Travail
3—The Windships: Sail and Swordplay
4—The Forest: Tree and Trickery
5—Waterstair: Candlebutter and Spiderweb
6—Gilvaris Tarv: Pain and Perfidy
7—The Road: Thicket and Thorn
8—Mirrinor: Wights of the Water
9—Doundelding: Secrets Under Stone
10—Rosedale: Briar and Bird








1
FOUNDLING


Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I.
My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.
—FROM THE TALITH SONG "YEARNING FOR FLIGHT"