“How old were you?” Sarah asked. “Eleven.” “A little young, weren’t you?” Haydren muttered, returning his gaze to sweeping the forest...

“Does he hate women, or just magic-users?” she asked quietly. “I have no idea who he hates,” Haydren replied. “But I believe he loves the...

“…can’t we wait to find out until we get to Quaran?” Haydren set his jaw, and said nothing. Pladt glanced sideways at him. “Or were you...

Haydren sat in silence for several long moments. A wind from the east ruffled the grasses just turning green with spring; through the...

“People can be complex, Haydren,” Geoffrey replied. “You never know what may motivate one person to do one thing and not another. Some...

“Does he hate women, or just magic-users?” she asked quietly. “I have no idea who he hates,” Haydren replied. “But I believe he loves the...

“I am fleeing! Save yourself!” he shouted. The wind ripped the words into the night, denying him comfort that they had found their...

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Maerie blinked each time Haydren referred to them by their proper names, but said nothing. Of course she had hoped Haydren would not grow...

The notes that followed were notes he had never been taught, but that rang in him with a familiarity that brought tears to his eyes. …He...

But the moon was content with its lofty track over the midnight skies, and Haydren would not be content with his dusty track through the...

When he first noticed the change, he had hoped there was something wrong with the polished steel; his classmates’ glances and ill-quieted...

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Haydren glanced at the Earl’s son, who stood smiling and talking with a group of boys. “I’ll give him a chance,” he said. “At least he’s...

Introducing the danieldydek.com blog! What this will actually be is a series of devotions. I'll start with an excerpt from Chapter I of...