![]() ![]() Rannoch doesn't want to fight, but when an assassin murders the hind who raised him, he knows he must confront Sgorr-and fulfill the rest of the prophecy. Meanwhile, Sgorr conquers herd after herd and uses other wildlife as fodder for his militia's training. ![]() Rannoch discovers as they travel that he can talk to-and even heal-other animals. An ancient prophecy states that a fawn with an oak leaf-shaped mark on his forehead is destined to free his kind from the ""lord of lies."" When Rannoch is born with such a mark, the elders know to protect him from Sgorr and arrange his escape with a pack of friends. Soon after the novel opens, the deer are fleeing from the power-hungry Lord of the Herd, Sgorr, a buck with a mysterious past who is slowly building a militaristic following. Clement-Davies's suspenseful debut novel centers on a cast of deer, who, like the rabbits in Watership Down, often use their own special vocabulary (deer, for instance, are ""Herla"" an insult to a Herla would be to call him a ""brailah,"" or hedgehog). ![]()
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