title: Owlknight (Darian's Tale, Vol. 3)
author:  Mercedes Lackey 
description: The latest collaboration between the creator of the Valdemar universe and her husband concludes the trilogy begun with Owlflight and Owlsight. Grown to maturity in the multispecies woodland settlement of k'Valdemar Vale, Darian Firkin has become a knight as well as a Master Mage to increase both his influence with neighboring tribes and his prestige within Valdemar. Darian's work in government gives way to travel when he finds hints that his parents, whom he believed dead, may be alive in the North. He sets off to discover their fate. Keisha, Darian's lover and a town healer, joins him, along with a crew of companions, but she remains of two minds about the future of their relationship because of her belief that marriage demands a woman's subordination. More action is provided by the lovers' encounters with various threats, including with a marauding tribe, the Wolverines, who are both vicious and intelligent. Valdemar is now an immensely well-developed world, and the book is full of dry wit and rich detailAabout, say, the bathing habits of gryphons and the sarcastic, telepathic dyheli, deerlike sapient beings. The effect is marred by too much New Age sensitivity and didactic feminism, however, making the novel cloying for all but Valdemar devotees. (Oct.) <br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Owlknight
  
  
  Book 3 of Darians Tale
  
  
  Mercedes R. Lackey and Larry Dixon
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  One.4
  
  
  Two.16
  
  
  Three.28
  
  
  Four40
  
  
  Five.51
  
  
  Six.62
  
  
  Seven.73
  
  
  Eight84
  
  
  Nine.96
  
  
  Ten.107
  
  
  Eleven.119
  
  
  Twelve.131
  
  
  Thirteen.142
  
  
  Fourteen.154
  
  
  Fifteen.166
  
  
  Sixteen.179
  
  
  Seventeen.191
  
  
  Eighteen.205
  
  
  Nineteen.216
  
  
  Twenty.228
  
  
  Epilogue.242
  
  
  Weve got soul.
  
  
  Weve got each other.
  
  
  Weve got the whole world to embrace.
  
  
  This ones for you.
  
  
  One
  
  
  A shrill whistle caught Darians attention, and he looked up and over the lake
  of kValdemar Vale, shading his eyes with his hand. As he expected, he saw
  Snowfire waving at him from his balcony, three-quarters of the way up the
  side of the cliff that edged the far side of the lake.
  
  
  Actually, it would have been more accurate to say that he saw a tiny figure
  with white hair waving from the balcony - at this distance he couldnt have
  said for certain that it was Snowfire. It wasnt Nightwind, though; her hair
  was still raven-wing black.
  
  
  The