The Long Road Back

Pardon the cliché; but here's the long story short - Josiah loses parents in avalanche. Magda, Galandell's sage and conscience, adopts him. He gets apprenticed to an unscrupulous, real son-of-a-biscuit, carpenter in Westeron. He finds his soul mate, Arel (who owns a brothel). He is accused wrongly and circumstances beyond his control force him to leave Westeron. So, he "steals" a horse which he finds out later actually has wings and can fly and he ventures to wherever Elly's Compass guides ...