A Skinchanger's Journey

A Skinchanger's Journey is a novella written by Gabrielle Grey. This novella takes place during the novel A Death at Dawn. The novella is canon to the When the Fires Broke Through universe.

The novella is told through the perspective of Ser Colvic Rames.

Background
The Lord Protector of the Southern Kingdom of Valley Pines, Peyton Osmont, gives Ser Colvic Rames his final task - protect his bastard son, Hadrian. For fifteen years, everyone had assumed that Hadrian was Lord Peyton and Lady Arla's natural born son, but on the boy's birthday, Lady Arla learned of the truth. Furious of the deception, she demanded for the boy's head, and Lord Peyton refused. Instead, he rushed his son out of King's Berth along with Ser Colvic and a small party of maidens, never to return. This plan, however, did not deter Lady Arla's obsession with having Hadrian dead; so she hired the Warrior Raiders, a once disbanded nomadic group known for their violence, to murder Hadrian. The small party continued to travel east, but the Warrior Raiders caught up and attacked their campsite, causing Hadrian and Ser Colvic to split away from each other.