Blue Amber

When Mallory met Edmund..."Is it magic?" she asked. "The stone didn't change," he said. "We did."It's more than a hundred years after the events of Spiderwork. A new world order is established with power uneasily shared between the Concord Cities and Sanguibahd, now called Red City.Thirteen-year-old Mallory of Garrick Settlement 20 cleans dirty tables in her Ma's saloon and hunts for rabbits and blackberries outside the wall. When the goddess Asherah makes her a bleeder, she...
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When Mallory met Edmund..."Is it magic?" she asked. "The stone didn't change," he said. "We did."It's more than a hundred years after the events of Spiderwork. A new world order is established with power uneasily shared between the Concord Cities and Sanguibahd, now called Red City.Thirteen-year-old Mallory of Garrick Settlement 20 cleans dirty tables in her Ma's saloon and hunts for rabbits and blackberries outside the wall. When the goddess Asherah makes her a bleeder, she leaves the settlement for the pampered life of a chalice.Sixteen-year-old Edmund of Allel has been groomed for the kingship since his father died. He's too preoccupied with his city's problems to think of his personal desires in life.When Mallory and Edmund meet, neither imagines their friendship will one day threaten the delicate balance of world power.Note: This edition of Blue Amber contains a long fragment of the epic poem Asherah and Her Samael, from the Scrolls of Scylla.