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The Matter of Manred Continues...

Since the day she was born, the Lady Eithne of Dolgallu has lived under a magical prohibition: she may not marry before the omens are deemed favorable.

Now, after a harrowing journey to the most sacred place in the Five Kingdoms, the Drymyn Order, a mysterious sect of powerful priests and priestesses, have pronounced the omens favorable, and her wedding to King Eowain of Droma has been arranged.

But Eithne has the right to accept—or reject—her suitor.

She did not set this geas upon herself, didn't ask for the special attention of the Gods to her love-life. Yet the time for her decision has come.

Eowain has proven himself loyal, brave, kind—all the things any woman might ask from a man.

But there’s the way of it: this is the man, you must marry him.

Is she not a free woman? Was she not guaranteed the right of choice?

Eithne is frustrated by the expectation that she will simply acquiesce to her fate, that she must accept that the Gods wove some secret pattern for her life and she can do nothing to stop it.

So how can she prove she has the freedom to choose if she doesn't choose, “No”? How can she know for herself that her will is truly her own if she consents?