Wings of Shadow by Nicki Pau Preto

Author:Nicki Pau Preto [Preto, Nicki Pau]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2021-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

Though none of the noble First Rider families can claim complete imperviousness to scandal, one of the lesser-known—but still socially detrimental—stories involves Cordelia Lightbringer, last scion of famed warrior and second-in-command Callysta Lightbringer.

With an older brother who died in his infancy from phoenix fever, Cordelia was the only surviving child of Arlo and Parthenia Lightbringer, of the non-royal* Lightbringer branch. Her parents intended her to marry into another noble family with good standing, perhaps a Strongwing or a Flamesong, but Cordelia had other ideas.

By all accounts an intelligent girl and a gifted animage, she allegedly spent more time in the stables than among polite company. She was known to go about dirty and barefooted, and there were even rumors she used to sleep outside, in the hayloft, like a common peasant.

It is perhaps not so shocking, then, that before her parents could make an official betrothal, she ran off with the stable boy. The next day, her favorite horse, cat, and dog—and a hundred gold pieces—also disappeared, never to be seen again.

—A History of the First Riders, the Morian Archives, 147 AE,

updated 171 AE

*The Lightbringers married into the royal Ashfire line through the union of the children of Nefyra and Callysta, and tracked their descendants all the way to the founding of the Golden Empire, despite taking the Ashfire name.

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