{"id":6548,"date":"2026-01-22T19:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/heralds-of-valdemar-01-lackey-mercedes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:42:35","slug":"heralds-of-valdemar-01-lackey-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/heralds-of-valdemar-01-lackey-mercedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Heralds Of Valdemar 01 – Lackey, Mercedes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A gentle breeze rustled the leaves of the tree, but the young girl seated beneath it did not seem to notice. An adolescent of thirteen or thereabouts, she was, by her plain costume, a member of one of the solemn and straight-laced Hold families that lived in this Borderland of Valdemar\u0097come there to settle a bare two generations ago. She was dressed (as any young Holdgirl would be) in plain brown breeches and a long, sleeved tunic. Her unruly brown curls had been cut short in an unsuccessful attempt to tame them to conform to Hold standards. She would have presented a strange sight to anyone familiar with Holderfolk; for while she sat and carded the undyed wool she had earlier cleaned, she was reading. Few Hold girls could read, and none did so for pleasure. That was a privilege normally reserved, by longstanding tradition, for the men and boys of the Holdings. A female\u0092s place was not to be learned; a girl reading\u0097even if she was doing a womanly task at the same time\u0097was as out of place as a scarlet jay among crows.<\/p>\n

If anyone could have seen her thoughts at that moment, they would have known her to be even more of a misfit than her reading implied.<\/p>\n

Vanyel was a dim shape in the darkness beside her; there was no moon, and only the dim light of the stars penetrated the boughs of the hemlock bushes they hid beneath. She only knew he was there by the faint sound of his breathing, though they lay so closely together that had she moved her hand a fraction of an inch, she\u0092d have touched him. Training and discipline held her quiet, though under other circumstances she\u0092d have been shivering so hard her teeth would have rattled. The starlight reflected on the snow beneath them was enough to see by\u0097-enough to see the deadly danger to Valdemar that moved below them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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