Prologue

"My Lady Miwen!" A dwarf yelled. "My Lord Isil-Gar!" The dwarf yelled again. There was know reply. Then a faint cry could be heard but it was week. The dwarf followed her ears and found her self at the bed room door of The Lord and Lady Of Shannara. She opened the door very slowly. She walked into the room the cry got louder but it was still week.

The dwarf felt cold wind on the back of her neck she turned. The window was open. She went to close it and saw something the window had been pulled out. Which meant that some one got into Her Lord and Lady's Room by opening the door from the outside. Then she heard the cry again she turned to bodies lay on the floor. Both torn to shreds blood every where. Then inside a cradle she saw the blankets move she walked over towards it. It was the Princess of Shannara she was sleeping. The child was not killed? But why?

This child was know different from her parents or was she? The Dwarf looked around the bodies her Lady Miwen lay on the ground near the cradle. Her hand hanging over the edge of the cradle. But her necklace was gone. The dwarf looked at the elfin child she wore the necklace. The dwarf walked over to her lord he was torn up as well. But the markings were not done be any creature she had seen but had an amazing resemblance to what was called a Shadowin. The dwarf walked to the window and closed it. She walked back to the baby. The new future Queen of Shannara, Princess Calil-Gawen.