Chapter Four
‘Who would you recommend as your successor?’
Guardian Islvy Troste regarded Eva with some sadness as she posed the question. Eva’s eleven years as High Summoner had just come to an end; Islvy had been at the head of Glour’s government for seven of those years, and the two women had often worked together. They had never been close friends, but they had been able to rely on each other.
‘Roys Alin,’ Eva replied. She hadn’t had to think hard for an answer to that question. Roys was no aristocrat, and that must speak against her when it came to government appointments. But she was a summoner whose natural strength almost equalled Eva’s own, and had long been Eva’s second in command. She was a rational, dedicated woman; she would do well in the role of chief of the realm’s summon
