Song in the Silence
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| Author | Elizabeth Kerner |
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| Cover artist | Stephen Hickman |
| Country | America |
| Language | English |
| Series | Lanen Kaelar |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Tor Fantasy |
| Released | 1997 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-8125-6875-3 |
| Preceded by | - |
| Followed by | The Lesser Kindred |
Song in the Silence is the first book in the Lanen Kaelar trilogy.
[edit] Plot Summary
Lanen Maransdatter is a young woman who is raised in Hadronsstead, believing that Hadron (the horsekeeper) was her father. However, she leads an unhappy life as she secretly longs to talk to the dragons to understand underneath the cruel thumb of her unloving father.
So when Hadron finally dies, she feels freed. After an abrupt proposal from her cousin (who gets a bruise from her fist in response), she leaves to seek out the objective of her dreams; the dragons, learning, on her journey, that her father Marik seeks her out to kill her for sacrifice.
Sure enough, she gets safely to the isle and meets with Akhor, the mighty silver-scaled dragon who is the King of the Dragons (known also as Kantri). She seeks him out with the two words that she uttered on instinct, that he respects her instantly for; 'My brother?'
In a short time, both grow to love each other and Lanen burns her hands terribly in helping Mirazhe, another Kantri, to give birth to the first young in years of dragons. Akhor becomes distressed and gives her into the hands of the only healer in the campus - who is hired by Matrik.
When Lanen's life is in danger of sacrifice under Marik, she calls out desperately to Akhor and he comes to save her from the guard of all these demons and her death. Deciding that it was safer for her, he took her back to his home away from anybody, where they are faced with the Council, which had broken into a hubbub after they found out that their king loved a Gedri (a human).
Marik, longing for revenge, comes and steals something very precious to the Kantri while they are distracted and so the Kantri break the boundary and break Marik's mind. Due to awful wounds sustained during the desperate battle, Akhor falls into the Weh sleep and is transformed to a human.
At the end of the book, Lanen and Varien (Akhor transformed) journey back to Hadronsstead and are married.
[edit] Characters
- Lanen Kaeler
- Akhor (Varien) - Lanen's beloved, later turned into a human (Gedri)
- Jamie - An old man who worked at Hadronsstead, loved Lanen like his own daughter
- Hadron - Lanen's 'father'
- Rella - An old woman who helped Lanen
- Maran - Lanen's real mother
