Shunned: Dragon's Cord #1 The Metal Veil and the Weeping Sword Named Tear

By Kristie Lynn

Based on the Shunned short story series.

Shy seeks work as a huntress to provide for the winter for herself and her adopted mother Faith and finds herself entangled with a deadly dragon. Shy wears a metal veil that hides a grim secret given to her at birth and along with her weeping sword named Tear, she seeks her destiny.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kristie Lynn
• Release date: Jan 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310649608

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Shunned: Dragon's Cord

#1

The Metal Veil and the Weeping Sword Named Tear

Kristie Lynn Higgins

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Chapter One

The Desperate Flight And The Shunned

Three horses pressed on through the arid air of the early desert morning as men bent on their destruction pursued their riders. The man and two women traveled for some time through the summer of the barren lands of the Region of Fire. The sun had risen and set on them three times now with little rest for the humans and their beasts. The Mountain of Tog was ahead of them and symbolized a freedom they so desperately sought. They crossed over it and entered the Region of Evers as the sun neared its highest point, and the freedom they gained would be meaningless if their pursuers caught them. They continued their desperate flight, and soon they neared a stream, and the man brought his horse to a halt as he signaled the other two to do the same. They had been without water since that morning. He needed not lead his horse to water; it eagerly walked over to it and drank while he sat atop and the other two horses joined him. The man wearing armor and a sword dismounted and allowed his steed to continue drinking as he patted its side. The women both wore dresses and looked as if they belonged to some kingly court.

The one woman, who had a short sword strapped around her waist and a quiver on her back, turned to the other woman as she told the man, Cor, we should rest. Cwen does not look all that well.

No, Faith, Cwen insisted as she placed a hand to her well rounded belly that carried her unborn child. "I am fine.