title: Whisper of Magic: Unexpected Magic Book Two (Volume 2)
author:  Patricia Rice 
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zlib_text: Circle of Magic Book One - Sandry's Book
  
  
  By Tamora Pierce
  
  
  In the Palace of Black Swans, Zakdin, capital of Hatar: Blue eyes wide, Lady
  Sandrilene fa Toren watched her near-empty oil lamp. Her small mouth quivered
  as the flame at the end of the wick danced and shrank, throwing grim shadows
  on the barrels of food and water that shared her prison. When that flame was
  gone, she would be without light in this windowless storeroom.
  
  
  "I'll go crazy," she said flatly. "When they come to rescue me, I'll be raving
  mad." She refused to admit that, with this room locked from the outside and
  hidden by magic, a rescue was hopeless.
  
  
  "I'll draw the mob away from here, far away," Pirisi had whispered through the
  keyhole, speaking in her native Tradertalk. "You'll be safe until the smallpox
  has run its course. Then I'll return for you." But her nurse had never
  returned.
  
  
  Right outside the door, the mob had caught and killed her because she was a
  hated Trader. With Pirisi dead, no one would even 