Chapter 10 AloneWhat would Rollin and the others say when they returned to what is left of Midpeak? What would the townsfolk tell them? Winter had taken Midpeak, and much of the town was destroyed. Those people, people who took Lacey in, cared for her and gave her a home are now left out in the cold, slowly starving or quickly freezing to death. And she is a thousand leagues away, comfortable and safe.
“Conanus, I would value your opinion.” Lacey laid out the story for the librarian of Shadestar. Telling him about her failure left a hollow feeling. She had failed in many events in her life, but none so large, to let down so many people. The blood that lay on the young mage’s hands was too much to bear. She remembered to the Lost City, when the young Vallion boy threw himself off the cliff
