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LIGHTWING
Tara K. Harper




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A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright ┬й 1992 by Tara K. Harper

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copy-
right Conventions. Published in the United States of America by
Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York,
and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Lim-
ited, Toronto.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 91-92392

ISBN 0-345-37161-5 Printed in Canada First Edition:

July 1992 Cover Art by Edwin Herder
 To Dr. Ernest V. Curto,
who spoke in his rich brown-toned voice
to the stars in my eyes.
It is like the pillowfight
when he walked me home
the first time.
 CHAPTER 1




She was late. Her shift had ended half an hour earlier, but
Kiondili was just now getting rid of the last bit of interference
in the ship's primary drive field. By now her class at the insti-
tute would have started, but until this field was finished, she
did not dare leave. The care she took in tuning the drives might
make the difference between being called back to work to-
morrow and being turned away with a shrug. There were
hundreds of people vying for every opening on the space-