Ilse Witch - Terry Brooks
Ilse Witch
Book 1 of The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara
By Terry Brooks
Chapter ONE
Hunter Predd was patrolling the waters of the Blue Divide north of the island of Mesca Rho, a Wing Hove outpost at the western edge of Elven territorial waters, when he saw the man clinging to the spar. The man was draped over the length of wood as if a cloth doll, his head laid on the spar so that his face was barely out of the water, one arm wrapped loosely about his narrow float to keep him from sliding ...