title: Calm Before the Storm: Crossing of Promise Book 2
author: DICK JANICE
description: "...Fortified by sterling research, this is a great story of restoration above all else, but also a historical record. A sweeping tale of love and loss, <i>Calm Before the Storm</i> carries the reader to other times and places, international intrigue at its best."<div><div>--Anne De Graaf, <i>winner of the Christy Award 2000 for international Historical Fiction for her novel</i> Out of the Red Shadow,<i> and author of more than eighty books</i>.</div></div>
zlib_text: Chapter Twenty
  
  
  
  
  
  "MISTRESS POL SAYS THAT IT'S TIME for you to come back to the tents," Durnik
  told them when he reached the glade. There was a faint hint of amusement on
  his plain, dependable face, and he looked knowingly at the two of them.
  
  
  Garion blushed and then grew angry with himself for blushing. Ce'Nedra,
  however, showed no concern at all.
  
  
  "Have the Dryads come yet?" she asked, getting to her feet and brushing the
  grass from the back of her tunic.
  
  
  "Not yet," Durnik answered. "Wolf says that they should find us soon. There
  seems to be some kind of storm building up to the south, and Mistress Pol
  thought the two of you ought to come back."
  
  
  Garion glanced at the sky and saw a layer of inky clouds moving up from the
  south, staining the bright blue sky as they rolled ponderously northward. He
  frowned. "I've never seen clouds like that, have you, Durnik?"
  
  
  Durnik looked up. "Strange," he agreed.
  
  
  Garion rolled up the two wet towels, and they started back down the stream.
  