Terec and the Wall

This is the second novella featuring Terec of Lund, a side character in her Nine Worlds series. This is not a good launching off point for the Goddardverse. It was a quick read, a nice character study, but not something I would probably revisit until the other two planned novellas are published and I can read them one after the other.

Terec, coming to awareness after fleeing into the wild magic north of the border of Astandalas, feels driven away from the wall's magic. He ends up someplace altogether different.
The poor fellow has minimal agency in this one, so it is not a favorite.

This is a short story that answers a few questions and brings Terec back from a journey. I continue to want this to be less episodic, but I understand why — I don’t think it would hold together as a longer book, and it helps slot into the larger adventure. I can’t imagine it would make any sense at all if you didn’t read the rest of the saga, but perhaps this series is like the fabled literary labyrinth and there are many passages in.