Lena, who has Animal Mindspeech and normally lives at the Temple of Thenoth, Lord of the Beasts, has been sent to stay with Lady Shantell, a friend of her late mother. While she is there, however, Lady Shantell's husband is killed in a hunting accident and she blames his hounds. Now Lena needs to save their lives and find a safe haven for a leash of greyhounds. This story originally appeared in the Valdemar anthology UNDER THE VALE, Dec 2011.
Author
Elisabeth Waters sold her first short story in 1980 to Marion Zimmer Bradley for The Keeper's Price, the first of the Darkover anthologies. She then went on to sell dozens of short stories to a variety of anthologies. Her first novel, a fantasy called Changing Fate, was awarded the 1989 Gryphon Award. Its sequel is Mending Fate, published in 2016. She currently writes short stories and has edited the Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which ended with Sword and Sorceress 34. She has also worked as a supernumerary with the San Francisco Opera, where she appeared in La Gioconda, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Khovanschina, Das Rheingold, Werther, and Idomeneo.
