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Nancy Springer

The White Hart

Book of the Isle 01




PROLOGUE



Long ago, so long ago that the enchantment of the Beginning was yet on it, there was a little land called
Isle. It might have been the world entire for all the people knew; vast oceans encircled it even as the
thick-woven Forest surrounded each village. Beyond the Forest, on the Wastes or the Wealds or the
mountain Marches of the sea, the Old Ones yet walked; and gods, ghosts and all delvers in the hollow
hills were no strangers to the woven shade just beyond the castle gates. It was in those times that

The Book of Sunsgot its start, though the Sun Kings knew it only dimly; and a far-flung fate got its start
when a lady fair as sunlight loved the Moon King at Laureroc.




BOOK ONE:

THE SPEAKING STONE




I sing the lady, the lightwinged maiden.



Golden as sunlight is Ellid Dacaerin;

Soft as dawn is the daughter of Eitha.



Bright as a sword is her soaring fancy;
 Bold as a falcon her spirit flies.



Swift as the deer her sorrow leaves her;

Light as its leap her laughter rises.