Fool's Errand
Book 1 of the Tawny Man
Chapter One
Chade Fallstar
Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?
- Kelstar's Riddle
He came one late, wet spring, and brought the wide world back to my
doorstep. I was thirty-five that year. When I was twenty, I would
have considered a man of my current age to be teetering on the verge
of dotage. These days, it seemed neither young nor old to me, but a
suspension between the two. I no longer had the excuse of callow
youth, and I could not yet claim the eccentricities of age. In many
ways, I was no longer sure what I thought of myself. Sometimes it
seemed that my life was slowly disappearing behind me, fading like
footprints in the rain, until perhaps I had always been the quiet
man living an unremarkable life in a cottage between the forest and
the sea.
I lay abed that morning, listening to the small sounds that
sometimes brought me peace. The wolf breathed steadily before the
softly crackling hearth fire. I quested toward him with our shared
Wit magic, and gently brushed his sleeping thoughts. He dreamed of
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