Reaching up, the rider removed his hood.
"I come to offer my services to my queen!" Illidan shouted, not to the guards but rather to those well within the palace itself. "I come to offer my services to my queen…and to the lord of the Legion!"
He waited, expression unchanging. After almost a minute, the gates began to open. Their creaking echoed through Zin-Azshari, the sound almost like that of the ghostly moans of the city's dead.
When the gates had ceased moving, Illidan calmly rode inside.
The gates closed quickly behind him.
CONTINUED INWAR OF THE ANCIENTSBOOK THREE: THE SUNDERING
About the Author
Richard A. Knaak is The New York Times bestselling fantasy author of 27 novels and over a dozen short pieces, including The Legend Of Huma and Night Of Blood for Dragonlance and THE WELL OF ETERNITY for WarCraft. He has also written the popular Dragonrealm series and several independent pieces. His works have been published in several languages, most recently Russian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, German, and Spanish. He has also adapted the Korean Manga, Ragnarok, published by Tokyopop. In addition to the third volume of the WAR OF THE ANCIENTS trilogy, THE SUNDERING, the author is also at work on EMPIRE OF BLOOD, the final book in his epic Dragonlance trilogy, The Minotaur Wars.