Hannis Arc, working on the tapestry of lines linking constellations
of elements that constituted the language of Creation recorded on the
ancient Cerulean scroll spread out among the clutter on his desk, was
not surprised to see the seven etherial forms billow into the room like
acrid smoke driven on a breath of bitter breeze. Like an otherworldly
collection of spectral shapes seemingly carried on random eddies of air,
they wandered in a loose clutch among the still and silent mounted bears
and beasts rising up on their stands, the small forest of stone pedestals
holding massive books of recorded prophecy, and the evenly spaced display
cases of oddities, their glass reflecting the firelight from the massive
hearth at the side of the room. Since the seven rarely used doors, the
shutters on the windows down on the ground level several stories below
stood open as a fearless show of invitation. Though they frequently chose
to use windows, they didn.t actually need the windows any more than they
needed the doors. They could seep through any opening, any crack, like
vapor rising in the early morning from the stretches of stagnant water
that lay in dark swaths through the peat barrens. The open shutters were
meant to be a declaration for all to see, including the seven, that
Hannis Arc feared nothing. #1 New York Times-bestselling author Terry
Goodkind returns to the lives of Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell.in a
compelling tale of a new and sinister threat to their world.

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