An-jing Xiao

An-jing Xiao, commonly known by her use-name Sundance, is the daughter of Duskdance, queen of Free Sky, and Duskdance's mate Suncrest. She has one brother, Shadowcrest, and a twin sister (by adoption), Starsong.

She is conceived in the novel Killdeer, though she makes her first appearance on-page at the age of eleven, in "Glorious Song of Old" with her father, mother, and six-year-old brother.

The following Christmas is related in "Enough", when she is twelve years old, and "The Tenth Lady" approximately two years after that. In "Sun and Moon and Stars of Light", she is seventeen years old.