Abhorsen
The Abhorsen Trilogy
Chapter One
A House Besieged
There was another fog, far away from the smog of Corvere. Six hundred miles to
the north, across the Wall that separated Ancelstierre from the Old Kingdom. The
Wall where the Old Kingdom's magic really began and Ancelstierre's modern
technology failed.
This fog was different from its far-southern cousin. It was not white but the
dark grey of a storm cloud, and it was completely unnatural. This fog had been
spun from air and Free Magic and was born on a hilltop far from any water. It
survived and spread despite the heat of a late-spring afternoon, which should
have burned it into nothing.
Ignoring sun and light breezes, the fog spread from the hill and rolled south
and east, thin tendrils creeping out in advance of the main body. Half a league
on from the hill, one of these tendrils separated into a cloud that rose high in
the air and crossed the mighty river Ratterlin. Once across, it sank to sit like
a toad on the eastern bank, and new fog begun to puff out of it.
Soon the two arms of fog shrouded both western and eastern shores ... read full excerpt from Abhorsen ebook
