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Tobit and Judith, brother and sister, were slender, silent children who rarely played with anyone else. Then, one autumn day, when the sky was a sea of clouds and the wind blew wild gusts of rain, Judith and Tobit followed a strange daylight glow through the woods and walked out of the world they knew into another that made their former lives seem pale shadows of reality. For the first time they seemed to waken from a sleepwalking dream.
Almost at once they were welcomed into the royal household of the Wanderer, for Judith's pale hair and silver-gray eyes proclaimed her a descendant of southern kings, who had lived in exile for five hundred years while Hagérrak the usurper ruled the country in tyranny from the White City. Now the land was waking; strange portents in field and forest indicated that Hagérrak's rule might be drawing to an end. It was only after Judith had looked into the magic fire of the Lady Iorwen, however, that she realized she alone could bring about the downfall of Hagérrak and the restoration of the true kings.
With a skill and imagination that would be remarkable in a far more experienced writer, Ruth Nichols, who was eighteen at the time, has written a spellbinding fantasy that introduces an exciting new talent to the realm of children's literature.
Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
—from the dust jacket
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