What is "alton"

Usage examples of "alton".

Matron Malice had instructed him that Alton DeVir should die even as their families' battle commenced.

He knew, though, that the spell he was now preparing would kill Alton before the student could learn his family’s fate, before the Faceless One could fully complete Dinin Do’Urden’s final instructions.

He felt the show well worth both the inconvenience and the new bruise on his shoulder when Alton DeVir scrambled out of the room.

It turned easily enough, but when Alton tried to shoulder through, the door did not budge and a burst of sparkling blue energy threw him back to the floor.

Or per-haps, Alton dared to imagine in those few desperate sec-onds, this was some interplanar gate that would bring him into a strange and unknown plane of existence!

Masoj was Alton’s only tie to the outside world, and while Masoj had a powerful family, Alton had only Masoj.

If Masoj hadn’t summoned his magical cat to distract the ice devil, neither he nor Alton would have gotten out of the room alive.

Now Alton had in his possession an item that could end his frustrations: a tome penned by a wizard of the surface world.

If Masoi had chided and doubted Alton before, he now showed only sincere respect.

Smiling, Alton continued, ”Just a disguise, that I might move about in the city and exact revenge upon our ene-mies!

Even he, with all of his doubts of Alton, had not expected his disfigured mentor to land them in trouble this serious.

He noticed the wizard in the midst of spellcasting, Alton fighting to hold his concentration as a host of spiders continued their hungry ascent up his flow-ing robes.

Perhaps Masoj should have shot him that day, sixteen years ago, when Alton was trapped in the Face-less One’s web.

The notion that only a tenth of his life was behind him was not a com-forting one to Alton DeVir this night.

One of them, Alton reminded himself, held the secret he most dearly wanted to know.