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You would think that everything would have settled down for Mags at the Collegium. After all, he had been there for half a year, and by now things should have sorted out into a routine.
But nothing is ever simple where the Collegia are concerned. Bear's parents want him to "stop wasting... read more
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- Mags: Herald trainee, his Chosen is Dallen, powerful mindspeech, Lena and Bear are his friends.
- Dallen: Mag's companion
- Baers: Best friend of Mags, ungifted healer
- Bear: Healer trainee, friends w/ Mags and Lena, and doesn't have Healer abilities.
- Caelen: Dean of the Heralds Collegium
- Lita: Dean of the Bardic Collegium
- Nikolas: Herald, King Own and his Chosen is Rolan, and have a daughter named Amily
- Soren: One of the Council members for King Kiril and his daughter named Lydia
- Lydia: niece of Councilor Soren and friend to Mags
- Amily: Nikolas's daughter, friend to Mags, and enjoys organizing documents. Crippled legg, not a herald.
- Tobias Marchand: Lena's father, Master Bard, Selfish
- Chamjey: Council member
- King Kiril: King of Valdemar and Herald
- Setham: Hearld and coach of South team for Kiriball
- Gennie: Herald trainee, captain of Kiriball on the South team, and powerful mindspeech. Chosen of Joy
- Prentice-hall: Herald trainee, on South team for Kiriball w/ Mags, and chosen is Hack.
- Jeffers: son of the head of Printers Guild and friend to Mags and on South team for Kirball
- Pip: Herald trainee
- Lena: Shy Bardic trainee, friends with Mags and Bear, and works hard to develop her talent.
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“...only the younge are unsophisticated enough to see past the mask to the truth and brave enough to speak it aloud.”
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“If yer sure ye're not crazy, don't that pretty much mean ye are?”
Mag to Dallen
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most intelligent people seemed to spend their lives feeling as if they didn’t fit in, that almost all of them felt like strangers inside their own skins, even when among their own friends. All of them seemed to be lonely, more or less. Many, to his surprise, were certain that there was a terrible darkness inside them that would utterly revolt anyone that knew about it.
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:It’s only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it’s gathering information.:
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:Muddling along is an art form, dear boy. It’s the great secret to life. You can’t plan for everything, so you take the good and the bad and cope as they happen and even though life gets muddled you somehow manage to get by.:
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:Ye kin paint a crow white, but that ain’t gonna make it a dove,:
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:We’re none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can’t be rocked off our feet by bad times. It’s the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.:
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there ain’t ’nough space for him an’ his ego t’ be in th’ same room at th’ same time.:
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only the young are unsophisticated enough to see past the mask to the truth and brave enough to speak it aloud.
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“The good news is that you are going to be respected and all your needs and wants will be taken care of forever. The bad news is that your new name is ‘Target.’ ”
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:The rule is that most things don’t matter as much as you might think.
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There were times when Dallen’s cheekiness didn’t just border on impudence, it jumped right into the middle of impudence and splashed it all around.
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First Sentence edit
MAGS slapped the palm of his hand against the blue-painted wood of the stable door, and it banged open, whacking into the frame as Mags hurried through it.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 4 in Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles. (standard series)
Preceded by Foundation, and followed by Changes.
This is book 8 of 37 in Books of Valdemar. (universe)
Preceded by Foundation, and followed by Changes.
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- Mercedes Lackey (Author)
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Publication Date: 2010
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Page Count: 336
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- Dewey: 813.54
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