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No Quarter by Tanya Huff
Chapter One
Motes of dust spun in the sunlight slanting into the upper hold through an open
hatch. At the edge of the shadows, a slight, dark figure held a round shield,
turning it this way and that so its polished surface caught the light.

"And I thought Bannon was vain," Vree muttered.

*It's not vanity,* Gyhard protested.

As the quiet voice in her head spoke with unusual seriousness, the ex-assassin,
late of His Imperial Majesty's Sixth Army, snorted but continued tilting the
shield.

*There. Hold it there.*

Vree stared into the makeshift mirror, feeling as though she were seeing her
features for the first time. Her dark brown eyes looked too big for her face. Her
chin was ridiculously pointed. Six days at sea under an unrelenting late summer


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sun had darkened the deep olive of her skin. She looked thin and much younger
than her almost twenty-two years.

*You are young.*

Her lips pressed into a thin line. *You told me you couldn't hear my thoughts.*
When Bannon had shared her body and it had been her brother's voice she heard,
their thoughts had merged and, with their thoughts, their identities. It had very
nearly destroyed them both. With Gyhard, however, it had been easy to draw the
line between them. Until now.