Now, for the first time in one volume, she offers two of her classic tales- The Sorceress and the Cygnet and The Cygnet and the Firebird-which delve into the fate of the Ro family and an otherworld rich in myth and mayhem, magic and adventure McKillip has charmed readers with her 'unique brand of prose magic' ( Locus). In the realm of fantasy, one name stands out from the crowd. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games

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Since she is a powerful sorceress and the heir to Ro Holding, if she continued down the path she was on, she could one day be a danger to everyone, not just the local birds and frogs. Nyx has been living off by herself in the swamps, focused entirely on magic and power and becoming less and less human and more and more amoral and, well, heartless (witness her casual dismemberment of birds, or the way Corleu perceives her initially: 'She studied him curiously, as if he were a rare tree frog that maybe she could use in her fire.'). I think the idea is that the whole scheme orchestrated by the semi-mythical personages, as you call them, was an attempt to wake up Nix Ro and prevent her from becoming a danger to all of Ro Holding, and perhaps especially to the assorted other subordinate holdings that the personages embody or represent.

Cygnet by Patricia A. McKillip