Through Wolf's Eyes by Jane Lindskold

Author:Jane Lindskold [Lindskold, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic
ISBN: 9781429913065
Google: KUFP0SskLKkC
Amazon: B0015UB120
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-06-17T00:00:00+00:00

Late that afternoon, when Derian was grooming Roanne and coaching Firekeeper as she sparred with Ox, Doc came into their camp.

Like Race, Sir Jared had taken a temporary commission, but his was with the medical corps. His uniform was the brilliant scarlet that served both to mark him out as a medic and to hide the gorier side effects of his calling.

Unlike Race, Doc didn’t wear the Kestrel badge, but the one granted to him when he received his knighthood: a hand palm upraised and impaled with several arrows. Beneath that was pinned a brooch in the shape of an eagle outlined in scarlet enamel, the wing feathers worked in silver, the beak and talons in gold, and the eyes perfectly faceted diamonds.

Doc slipped Roanne a piece of carrot, then said to Derian in a hushed voice, “I’d like to speak with you privately when you’re done.”

“I’ll meet you there,” Derian tossed his head to indicate a hillock about equidistant between their camp and a copse of trees that skirted the field, “as soon as I have this done.”

Curiosity made Derian finish more quickly than he should and by way of an apology he gave the chestnut mare another chunk of carrot. Seizing a water bottle, he ambled to where Doc leaned against a slender tree trunk.

“What’s up?” he asked, sitting beside the other man. “You look grim.”

“Do you know Hope well?” was Doc’s answer. “I haven’t been here for some years.”

“Pretty well,” Derian replied. “I haven’t been here for about a year, but I’ve come the last several with my father. You can get some good deals on stock this time of year from folk who don’t want to feed them over the winter.”

“Legally owned?” Doc asked, curious despite his evident preoccupation.

“Not all,” Derian admitted, “but quite a few are. There are wild horses in the plains to the southwest. Some cross into Hawk Haven, but the best herds are found in Bright Bay. Import is legal, but elsewhere you pay a fee at the border. Here…”

Doc nodded. “I see. Well, I need your help. The Surgeon General and the king’s personal physician have asked me to purchase something for them.”

He hesitated and Derian said quickly, “I won’t say a word to anyone, not even Firekeeper if you don’t want me to.”

“I’ll take your word on that,” the knight said, and Derian felt his heart swell with pride.

“Go on,” he said, a bit more gruffly than he had intended.

“The king,” Doc said, still hesitant, “is not a young man and this journey has not been easy for him.”

Derian decided to help him along. “Lady Elise told Firekeeper and me—she didn’t want to talk about it with her aunts, they having their own agendas—that she was worried. She said King Tedric looked grey and tired.”

“Lady Elise,” Doc said, a glow banishing his worried expression for a moment, “has good eyes for this. She has studied some of what I’ve been teaching Firekeeper, saying that if there is trouble, ancestors forfend, she wants to be able to do more than hide in the fortress.

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