Kitiara the mercenary

“Who knows with Kitiara?” Raistlin shrugged his thin shoulders. “The last time we saw her was here, in the Inn, five years ago. She was going north with Sturm. We have not heard from her since. As for the new lord, I’d say we now know why she broke her oath to us: she has sworn allegiance to another. She is, after all, a mercenary.”
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Wild, impetuous, hot-tempered—the swordswoman was everything Tanis was not.

Excerpt From Dragons of Autumn Twilight, pg 55, 60
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman