Hawkmistress!

Same story line and people as [b:Zandru's Forge 410901 Zandru's Forge (Darkover, #4; Clingfire, #2) Marion Zimmer Bradley https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1319444385l/410901.SY75.jpg 400175] but from one of its non-primary characters. This book has good pacing, although I started to scan the paragraphs in the last several pages to get to the meat of the plot. Thankfully I read this in hardback where the vocals and the mental thoughts have different font styles; I suspect I might have been frustrated by the audio and it's inability to distinguish this without an narrater's inflections to distinguish this.