Second Flight — Douglas Browning

After escaping from the Prison, Snydur flees to the Challory where his love, Palix, dwells. He finds she has mysteriously disappeared and no one knows where or why. As the power of Jaltran's vicious black-clad legions spreads across the Valley, Snydur sets out to search for her, traveling alone from Challory to Challory and across the forests of the land to the City, learning along the way of a band of women warriors led by one called Mistra. A number of discoveries suggest to him that Mistra is Palix. Is she? The story continues in Ysstrhm 4, The Second Quest.