Testing Grounds

Going through the two week ranking assessment is a chore for Cavallan, simple but necessary. Doing it under a pseudonym is a bit more of a tangle, but he's prepared to buckle down and just get on with it.But when he arrives, he meets an old friend and makes a new one. Suddenly it isn't as much of a chore, but it's no longer simple, either.Now he has to dance a knife-edge between truth and deception, and the only thing waiting for him if he slips is pain... E H Timms won the BBC Wildlife Young Poet of the Year award, hasn't managed to stop writing since, and now lives in South West England with a computer tethered to one elbow and far too many books. Life doesn't stop just because Big Events might be on the horizon. There will still be birthdays to celebrate and errands to run, routine assessments to get through and passing bandits to deal with.The Guildverse follows members of the larger Guilds - Warriors, Weavers, Merchants, and more - through these quieter moments as they find ways to balance Guild against country, family against duty, past against future, and truth against perception...