segunda-feira, 10 de março de 2008

The Outstretched Shadow, Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory

Seventeen-year-old Kellen Tavadon has lived his whole life in the Mage City, Armathelieh. The son of High Mage Lycaelon Tavadon, Kellen is expected to become a stellar Mage by Armathelieh's citizens. However, fate has different plans for him. Stumbling through the City's Low Market, he comes upon three mysterious books — the books of the Wild Magic — an art forbidden by the High Mages. Kellen is accused and convicted for the practice of Wild Magic, after Lycaelon searches his room and finds the books. He is forced from the city by an Outlaw Hunt — a rare event orchestrated by the mages of the Council to look like banishment — but actually a cover-up for murder.

Kellen casts a Wild Magic spell asking for help in escaping the Outlaw Hunt. The Wild Magic grants him a unicorn named Shalkan who agrees to help Kellen on the condition that he remain chaste and celibate for one year. Seeing little choice, Kellen agrees. After he and Shalkan fight off the stone hounds of the Outlaw Hunt, both are badly injured and seek refuge at the home of a Wild Mage named Idalia.

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