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R.A.Salvatore

Servant of the Shard



(Forgotten Realms novell. Path of Darkness. Book III)





Prologue



He glided through the noonday sunshine's oppressive

heat, moving as if always cloaked in shadows, though the

place had few, and as if even the ever-present dust could

not touch him. The open market was crowded-it was always

crowded-with yelling merchants and customers bargaining for

every copper piece. Thieves were positioning themselves in

all the best and busiest places, where they might cut a

purse string without ever being noticed, or if they were

discovered, where they could melt away into a swirling crowd

of bright colors and flowing robes.

Artemis Entreri noted the thieves clearly. He could tell

with a glance who was there to shop and who was there to

steal, and he didn't avoid the latter group. He purposely

set his course to bring him right by every thief he could

find, and he'd pushed back one side of his dark cloak,

revealing his ample purse-revealing, too, the jewel-

decorated dagger that kept his purse and his person