In Vanyel's great-great-grandfather's day it had been a more conventional defensive keep, but by the time Vanyel's grandfather had held the lands, the border had been pushed far past Forst Reach. The manor-keep of Lord Withen Ashkevron of Forst Reach was a strange and patchworked structure. The stair treads were so narrow and so slick that not even the servants used it. Radevel's remark had probably been prompted by this very back staircase, one that started at one end of the third-floor servants' hall and emerged at the rear of a linen closet on the ground floor. Magic’s Pawn One “Your grandfather," said Vanyel's brawny, fifteen-year-old cousin Radevel, "was crazy." He has a point, Vanyel thought, hoping they weren't about to take an uncontrolled dive down the last of the stairs. Mercedes Lackey Last Herald Mage Trilogy 01
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