​Megge's Story Begins

Bury Down Grove, 1275 CE
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A thousand years have passed since Murga was put to the stake.

It had taken the elderly seer a lifetime to harness into two great tomes, The Book of Time and The Book of Seasons, ​the power to sustain the human spirit in perpetuity. Her murmured incantations summoned those she called Mentors—the spirits of scholars, healers, astronomers, and seers—back to the living world to impart the knowledge and wisdom she needed in order to protect the people of her settlement.

That power cost Murga her life.

For a thousand years, the books have passed to Murga’s successors, the healers and seers of Bury Down, who have used Murga’s spells to call on the Mentors for guidance as they counseled rulers, foresaw and averted disasters, and healed the sick.

For a thousand years, each heir has vowed to face flames rather than fail in her one charge in life: to pass her book to her daughter.

Tonight at midnight, in Bury Down grove, the healer’s young daughter, Megge, wary of the unfamiliar rites and frightened by a whisper only she can hear, will be asked to accept her mother's ancient Book of Seasons.

And that terrible vow may cost the Healer of Bury Down her life.

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