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Chapter 7 Stirrings
Chapter 8 A Plain Brown Wrapper
Chapter 9 Fiery Riddles
Chapter 10 The Weight of a Kings Mantle
Chapter 11 Hot Winds
Chapter 12 Comrades
Chapter 13 Paying the Piper
Chapter 14 Dancing Snakes
Chapter 15 The Guide
Epilogue
Book 3: Desert Empires
Chapter 16 Never a Fouler Place
Chapter 17 Impossible Loyalties
Chapter 18 Double Talker
Chapter 19 Tricks and Traps
Chapter 20 Black and White
Chapter 21 Where No Sun Shines
Chapter 22 The Rift
Chapter 23 If Ever You Loved Catti-brie
Chapter 24 Interplanar Goo
Chapter 25 A Walk in the Sun
Epilogue



Prelude
The wizard looked down upon the young woman with uncertainty. Her back was
to him; he could see the thick mane of her auburn locks flowing around her
shoulders, rich and vibrant. But the wizard knew, too, the sadness that was in
her eyes. So young she was, barely more than a child, and so beautifully
innocent.
Yet this beautiful child had put a sword through the heart of his beloved
Sydney.
Harkle Harpell brushed away the unwanted memories of his dead love and
started down the hill. "A fine day," he said cheerily when he reached the young
woman.
"Do ye think they've made the tower?" Catti-brie asked him, her gaze never
leaving the southern horizon.
Harkle shrugged. "Soon, if not yet." He studied Catti-brie and could find no
anger against her for her actions. She had killed Sydney, it was true, but
Harkle knew just by looking at her that necessity, not malice, had guided her
sword arm. And now he could only pity her.
"How are you?" Harkle stammered, amazed at the courage she had shown in
light of the terrible events that had befallen her and her friends.
Catti-brie nodded and turned to the wizard. Surely there was sorrow edging
her deep blue eyes, but mostly they burned with a stubborn resolve that chased
away any hints of weakness. She had lost Bruenor, the dwarf who had adopted her
and had reared her as his own since the earliest days of her childhood. And
Catti-brie's other friends even now were caught in the middle of a desperate
chase with an assassin across the southland.