I am having doubts about your disclaimer. You sure you aren't Mercedes Lackey?

Very nice story. Just one thing bothered me- when Kerowyn first meets Dirk in "By The Sword" she instantly recognizes that he moves like an assassin. I don't think she would ever have been fooled by his 'country bumpkin' act.

I liked this story. Those two do get along very well, poor students. Hahahaha!

I liked this alot. Kero is one of my favorite characters, next to Tarma and Kethry. :)

I really enjoyed this story. I read By The Sword and I had read Stolen Silver or the Albreich book. I enjoyed how you made neither Albreich nor Kerowyn stronger than the other. Though it is understandable that Kerowyn is a stronger fighter. Her teacher Tarma was very good at teaching her. Overall I look forward to your next book.

Very good!

Neat - I usually stick with HP, but Kero is one of my favourite Valdemar characters, so I read this after 'A Spy's secrets' yesterday. (Which I really liked, I do hope you go on with it)

But back to KS, I think your characterisation & humour are very good, your writing style very readable.

Now I'll go read your other stuff, glad to have come across you. Cheers, Pam

great story!

please write more. very good

Nice one :-)

Great fic. You've really captured the tone of M. Lackey's books. I look forward to reading more of your work in the future.

Now, Its been a while since I read "By the Sword" and I don't own the book (mores the pity) but I THINK Kero was put straight into Whites. She adopted the Grays that Alberich wore because they made her a target in battle. Being a merc captain she wasn't about to be a target.

She never really went through a "Trainee" period. Due to her experience and age, she was tutored on the side (mostly by Eldan if I remember rightly) but put straight into Whites.

The story is well written and quite well done, but (and again I may be wrong) you skewed the canon a bit to get there.

Awesome. I'm really looking forward to the rest of it! Your characterization is perfect and your understanding of the concept is obviously...well, advanced. Whew...this is the first review I've written in a long time. I feel weird...-_-

Only one thing...your syntax isn't...well, it's slightly off. No offense! I mean, well, of course...Alberich's syntax is supposed to be iffy...hehe. But there's certain ways of putting it...like Yoda would say (hehe)

For example, instead of "You have training in this had, yes?" it should be "Training in this you have had, yes?" Basically, in order to "correctly" put the verb at the end of the sentence, you normally place the subject at the beginning. For example, again, in this sentence the subject is "training" and the verb is "had". Technically, "have" is the adverb and be placed always, always always before the verb...

I'm rambling again. Erm...*turns off grammar machine* Sorry! Heh heh...I'll be quiet now. Other than teensy weensy syntax mistakes...(this is silly, 'cause your supposed to make mistakes with the syntax, but erm...'correct' mistakes...argh!1) It's beautiful! You really put a colourful background into it, too. _

Verry good- maybe something about Keth, Tarma, Jadrek et al?

O! I like it! I wish you would do more. Very good with the decsriptions, blocks of weapons and vernacular.

Keep up the great work!