But Lakewalkers and Farmers don't fall in love and they certainly don't marry. She's young and naive but bright and full of life. He's older and battered and battle scarred. In fact they fall in love which is an unlikely and unwanted thing for a number of reasons. Fawn has accidentally primed Dag's second knife which is a baffling circumstance that needs Lakewalkers with more knowledge to explain.ĭealing with her miscarriage and his injuries brings them close together.

In the course of the rescue, the Malice steals the groundsense from her baby and kills it and Fawn is the one who manages to insert Dag's sharing knife into the Malice killing it. But then she is captured by Mud Men sent by the Malice and Dag is barely in time to rescue her. He takes her to a nearby abandoned farmplace where she can stay until he deals with the Malice. Their next encounter is when she is kidnapped on the road by a bandit and a Mud Man and Dag rescues her. She thinks she's hidden but her spark of life makes her very visible to him. Their first encounter has Fawn hiding up and tree and Dag resting beneath it.

She's looking for a new start in a place where she is valued and isn't made to feel stupid.ĭag Redwing Hickory is a Patroller, a Lakewalker, who spends his life looking for the Malices who randomly pop up and who, if left unchecked, can totally destroy the world. Fawn Bluefield is a young Farmer girl who has run away from home and taking an unplanned pregnancy with her. This is Lois McMaster Bujold's take on epic fantasy but twisted in the Bujold way.

The sharing knife beguilement