By Arthenice Belloq Chapter One: Abducted by the Reachmen I was born in Murcien's Hamlet, just north across the Bjoulsae from Evermore. My mother was a weaver, and my father was a boat-builder who made small fishing smacks and coracles for the river trade. I remember my youth as a happy one, playing around the docks where Father worked, or hunting through the near woods for entoloma caps and hickory nuts. So at night, when I should have been sleeping in my pile of furs, I started making a spear.