If she could undertake a journey to southern Italy, the place where she'd been born, maybe she could stop the course of her consumption. Before the Present Pass and the awakening of Aivas, when dragonriders had been denigrated and even the Harper Hall in jeopardy, Master Robinton had made use of rare talents—harpers, men and women, who knew their way about most of the settled holds and halls, large and small.