Library of the Sapphire Wind

Instead of mentors, they got monsters...That's what Xerak, Vereez, and Grunwold think when three strange creatures shimmer into being within the circle of Hettua Shrine. Their conclusion is reasonable enough. After all, they've never seen humans before.As for Margaret Blake, Peg Gallegos, and Tessa Brown--more usually known as Meg, Peg, and Teg--they're equally astonished but, oddly enough, better prepared. Age and experience have accustomed them to surprises. A widely varied course of reading materialhas intellectually prepared them for the idea that other worlds, even worlds where people with traits more commonly ascribed to 'animals' may exist--