Laura Haglund: 3 books

Prequel to A Drum Is Empty, this short story is narrated by one of the secondary characters. Kewarratiwa flees into the night while her family is slaughtered by the "tall folk." After days of wandering, with little food and water, fearful of encountering more of the hostile tribe, she is found by one of them, and discovers that they are not all the same.

Thoughout the development of the human race, no matter how much changed along the way, there was a thread of continuity. Knowledge and wisdom were passed from generation to generation along with the spice of entertainment. Now, we have television, but once there were Grandmothers.

Radovin, a young apprentice shaman, is screwed. Bound by an oath sworn on his life when he began his apprenticeship, he faces certain death if he betrays his master. He's in no hurry to die, but he cannot serve a murderer. When his closest friend dies in a contrived "accident", Radovin heeds...