By the Sword (36 page)

“I know, but not yet.”

Tanel nodded with a sad smile.

“I wish you weren’t
going, but I can feel it already. You are going to change the world, Talya. I always wondered when Sanctus would become too constraining for you.”

Talya leaned toward Tanel and hugged him once more.

“Good-bye, my friend,” she said.

Talya then kicked her mare into a full gallop. Her heart still ached with the emptiness left by Jalarn’s passing. He had given his life for her. She was not going to waste it by coasting through life, by living her life by the sword.

Her heart swelled with compassion for the lost as she rode into the unknown world.

The End

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