Cart and Cwidder

Moril looked at the six men. Each wore a sword in a leather scabbard, and he did not like the way the hilts looked smooth with frequent use... Clennen and his family earn their living as itinerant musicians, travelling the lanes of Dalemark in their colourful cart. With warring earldoms and spies all about, few move between North and South, and they often carry news - and sometimes, as now, a passenger. Who is he, this Kialan? Is there any connection between him and the sudden violence that overtakes them on their travels? When it is left to Moril, Brid and Dagner to carry out Clennen's instructions, their fate and Kialan's are bound together in terror and flight - and music, for the songs of Dalemark mean more than they say.