Synopsis "Lark's Kiss: The Sack of Arx Cervus"
Alain seemed like such a nice boy. He had a ready wit, a welcoming smile, a song in his heart...and such lovely eyes! So light were his feet that when they danced, Alauda the Lark felt as if she might be swept away to twirl among the shining stars above. Smitten, she was almost able to forget that her first love, Alacer, was slipping away from her. Alauda couldn't know that her new paramour's fingers were even lighter than his feet - though if she had, it would simply have added to his allure. She was that sort of girl. Having escaped a web of political intrigue that ended in a kidnapping, an unanticipated plunge over a waterfall, and a firestorm of arcane magic, Alauda now finds herself enmeshed in a conspiracy born of tales handed down from a bygone and bloody age. Ensnared by her unquenchable curiosity, she is about to be swept up in a plot to storm an ancient fortress, overcome its dangers, ferret out its secrets, and confront a guardian who was old when the world itself was young. And all to recover a treasure laid down eons before by one of the Realm's legendary heroes: a treasure too dangerous to sell, and yet infinitely more dangerous to keep. Magic and mystery, old lore and new love; destiny, danger, betrayal, and loss. Rites of passage all, that mark the end of childhood and the beginning of what comes next. Just another week in the Lark's ever more complicated life.
