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When thieves find an abandoned child lying in a monster’s footprint, they have no idea that their wilderness discovery will change the course of history. Cloaked in mystery, Auralia grows up among criminals outside the walls of House Abascar, where vicious beastmen lurk in shadow. There,... read more
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“Never met nobody who wasn't a thief or a liar once in a while. The Gatherers are just the folks who got caught.”
Auralia -
“Auralia’s way was to bless the undeserving, not reward those who gave her what she wanted.”
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“Who am I? I'm hungry. I'm tired. I'm forty-three years a miner for Abascar. Old enough to remember what the house once was. Old enough to resent what it's become. That's who I am. And I'm called Marv. A miner assigned to a mudhole. This is not my trade. This is just a show of the king's ambition.”
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“There's a saying in House Jenta. 'The clouds weep for those afraid to cry.' From the looks of these clouds, those listeners must be in deep despair.”
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“She declared to the air that she would not visit the Gatherer settlement again, for her gifts had only made them selfish.”
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“Shoutin' and cheerin' for figments of your own imaginations.”
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“Perhaps you should know that I've heard tales about some rare and special people... people possessed of a powerful gift. Long ago they called them firewalkers. But they were so rare, most thought they were only fiction. In Abascar, superstition isn't welcome. There are people here... who will never discover their own talents simply because they refuse to believe such things are possible. If you know the secret of passing through fire, there are many places only you can travel and a lot of things only you can know.”
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“She could have offered him his dreams, and he would have refused them to avoid the appearance of weakness, to escape a confession that there were things beyond the wall worth having, things he could not control.”
Narration
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if you allow Abascar freedom, some people will choose what they shouldn’t.” He took hold of her shoulder, speaking with urgency. “But take away that freedom, and no one has opportunity to choose what they should.”
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“Hasn’t our experience taught us that there are more things at work in the world than our experience can teach us?”
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“The hunger driving this affair will not be satiated, Jaralaine. Ask any of the thieves in Abascar’s dungeons. The more you feed such appetites, the greater the pit becomes, until you collapse into it yourself.”
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“Ashamed they’ve forgotten how to live here. They’re too busy making piles of things they think they need and then buildin’ walls around ’em. Makes ’em think there’s nothin’ out here they need. But out here they’d remember that they’re small and that they need help.”
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Auralia’s way was to bless the undeserving, not reward those who gave her what she wanted.
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“As people grow up, they’re embarrassed to think there’s something out there they don’t understand. It makes them feel small. Like maybe they’re not in charge. Like they have to be careful.”
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“But I guess it takes more than just showing. They’ve gotta be willing to see.
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Her name was in the music of that voice. She was part of its secretive scheme. It would not forget her, had never forgotten her.
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“They were so obsessed with what others might think…that they forgot who we really are.”
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First Sentence edit
Auralia lay still as death, like a discarded doll, in a burgundy tangle of rushes and spineweed on the bank of a bend in the River Throanscall, when she was discovered by an old man who did not know her name.
Table of Contents edit
Acknowledgments xi
1. Old Thieves Make a Discovery
2. The Concert of Stitching
3. A Basket of Blue Stones
4. The Merchants' Daughter
5. The Ale Boy
6. Summoner and Stranger
7. Night on the Lake
8. The Unguarded Gallery
9. Breaking the Blacklode
10. A Day of Rain and Robbery
11. Promontory
12. Stricia's View
13. Cup, Dagger and Mask
14. Auralia's Color
15. Cal-raven Comes Home
16. Inquisitors
17. Radegan's Gamble
18. The Dreamers
19. The Ring of Trust
20. Blood Tidings
21. A Thief in the Underkeep
22. The Jailer
23. Cal-marcus Turns
24. The Promise Broken
25. Laughter in Chains
26. The Underkeeps Opens
27 The Quake
28. At the Edge of the Fearblind North
29. A Storm of Remembering
30.The Remnant of Abascar
Epilogue
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 4 in Auralia Thread. (standard series)
Followed by Cyndere's Midnight.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jeffrey Overstreet (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 4, 2007
ISBN: 9781400072521
Page Count: 334
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 4, 2007
ISBN: 9781400072521
Page Count: 334
Awards edit
- Christy Award (Finalist, 2008: Visionary)
- Christy Award (Finalist, 2008: First Novel)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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- Looking Closer: Author's website.
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