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Lady Blade, Lord Fighter 01
Silver Bracers
by

Sharon Green
Copyright ┬й 1987 by Sharon Green.

All Rights Reserved. Cover art by Ken Kelly.

DAW Book Collectors No. 729.

Dedication:

For Cathy Palfy, for starting it al! and making me do it;

For Frank Adler, for helping me window-shop and ask the right questions;

And last but certainly not least-

For Bob Rosenberg, who from first to last made it all possible and understandable.

Thanks for bringing me into the computer age!

Chapter One
The snow and ice had degenerated to slush that wasn't re-freezing even after dark, but Timper still
disliked riding through it over the cobbles of the city. Oncoming spring had much more pleasant signs in
the south, ones which didn't make the streets slippery and unsafe even for a sure-footed mount, and the
young courier wished he was back there. Despite the heavy woolen cloak over his clothing he was cold,
but the dratted cold wasn't bad enough to distract him from his problems, only bad enough to be an
additional burden. His problems remained just as clear in his mind as they had been.

A part of which was having to plod up and down the streets of the northern city of Fyerlin, trying to find
the one he was supposed to deliver his message to. The torches on the heavy stone buildings he passed
laughed at him for his initial naivete in believing that that would be the simplest part of his commission,
merely needing the time to reach the lady at her aunt's house. Since the skirmishing had already resumed,
having no patience to await a proper spring and summer due to the presence of so many Sword
Companies, where else would the daughter of a Duke be found but safely beside her aunt? The Countess
herself had a strong, competent House Guard, well-armed and able to repel attempted incursions during
that time of war and unrest, so where else would her niece be but-
With one of those Sword Companies.

Timper sighed, overwhelmingly relieved that he would not need to be the one to tell that to the Duke.
After the death of the Duchess, the Duke had sent his eldest daughter to live with his sister-in-law, the