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He faltered for a way to tell it. "You know there are other universes,
mighty Amon, Realities sprouting from alternatives, like leaves
from a tree. Van Duyn is from another, and from it he and the
deCourteneys plucked soldiers, and a metal war-machine to slay
Chaffinch.**

"Your first failure," thundered the demon. "Masters of Shardishfcu-
Salamd, witness it now!"

Yardiff Bey's senses jolted, as Amon conjured up those events
again . . .

Through the eyes of Ibn-al-Yed, mask-slave to Yardiff Bey, they
saw the castle where Springbuck, the deCourteneys and their little
band were at bay. Ibn-al-Yed had only to keep them confined until
the sorcerer sent the dragon Chaffinch.

But there was a disturbance in the air, a pushing-apart of the
boundaries between worlds. A lumbering, drab-green vehicle
came roaring into the meadow. From it a man emerged, confusion
manifest on his face, some odd black implement cradled under his
arm.

It was, in certainty, a trick of the deCourteneys. The Druid who'd
accompanied Ibn-al-Yed called up an air elemental, to undo it. But
as the were-wind ripped at him, the stranger brought up his
implement. There were bright, stuttering explosions. Druid and
horse toppled, dead, pierced with holefr by the otherworldly
weapon.

Ibn-al-Yed backed his horse away hi shock and confusion. Yardiff
Bey, his Masters and dread Amon looked back through time, at the
indecision in the newcomer's features. He wiped his forehead
once, quickly, on an olive-colored sleeve. Over his left breast
pocket were cryptic letters no one there could decipher: us ARMY.
Over the right was another strip of characters, whose meaning they
would come to know: MACDONALD.

Through the eyes of the late Ibn-al-Yed, the sorcerer watched that
early disruption of his careful design. The image receded, Amon
summoned up another . . .

There was revelry in Hell.

The metal war vehicle had killed Chaffinch, but events had left
Gabrielle deCourteney in the hands of Yardiff Bey. It was an
occasion of tremendous importance, enormous success. In
Amon's mansion on the in-

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