On Ordeal: Roshaun ke Nelaid (Young Wizards)

A wizard's Ordeal is intensely personal, and sometimes intensely dangerous... or not. Each Ordeal is tailored to the wizard who may pass it -- or fail to pass. Each one is in some ways diagnostic of the innermost nature of the wizard who embraces the challenge offered them by the Powers that Be.
This is the Ordeal of Roshaun ke Nelaid, scion of an ancient line of wizards now elevated to the status of royalty on their planet. But Rho doesn't care about the power and wealth of being a Prince of Wellakh. What he longs for more than anything (well, almost anything) is the one thing it's beginning to look as if he'll never have...

On Ordeal: Roshaun ke Nelaid is a 45,000-word canonical work in the Young Wizards universe. It is one of a triptych of Ordeal tales to be completed in August and early September of 2016.