The Ghost and the Scion: A Ghost of the Wastes Novella (Ebook)

The earliest story in the Ghost of the Wastes timeline. Thessaly is twenty, Cale is thirteen, and this is their first meeting in the Hidden Valley, the encounter the main series refers to as "five years ago."

Before he was a legend to an entire academy, he was a masked boy who walked into a warlord's camp and cut the most dangerous woman in the Planes free of her chains.

Thessaly the Scion is heir to the Dusk Assembly, the deadliest evasion specialist on the Mercenary List, and the most beautiful problem at every table she has ever sat down to ruin. On her twentieth birthday, three hundred suitors line up to bid on her. Every one of them is beneath her notice.

The warlord Grevar Thresh does not bid. He arranges. He has spent five years and a brother's life on a plan to make the Scion his wife and her Assembly his throne, and when her transport goes down in the deep Wastes, the trap is already laid, baited with the one man whose loyalty she never thought to question.

Collared, her mana drowned, her power stripped from her for the first time in her life, Thessaly kneels in a warlord's stolen pavilion and does the arithmetic on her own death.

Then the storm on the ridge refuses to settle. Something small and dressed in the black of a starless sky crosses a farmyard, and a man comes apart before anyone catches the motion, and for the first time in twenty years the most dangerous person in the room is not her. He is thirteen years old. He drinks the storm. And when he lifts the mask, the Scion feels something rise in her that she has no business feeling, and gives it a name she will spend the next five years refusing to say out loud.

This is where it starts. The night the Ghost of the Wastes walked out of the Wastes, a warlord learned there are worse things than a quick death, and Thessaly the Scion stopped being the most dangerous thing in her own life.

A Ghost of the Wastes side story, set roughly five years before the events of Volume One: the day the Scion and the Ghost first meet.

A standalone novella set in the world of the Arcane Mercenary series. Can be read before or after the main series.

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