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The Wizard in Waiting [154-011-4.0]

By: Robert Don Hughes

Category: fiction fantasy

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CHAPTER ONE

A Dream of Betrayal

AWAKE AGAIN.

Those were the first words of the Imperial House of Chaomonous in over
a thousand years. The second words followed logically from the
first.

Therefore, the dragon is dead.

The Imperial House did not speak as men do. How could it, lacking
lungs and a mouth? Yet to one who knew castle speech, the groaning of
aged door sills or a whistling draft down a hallway would have
expressed thoughts as clearly and purposefully as the words of human
language. Condensation formed on all the interior walls of the palace
as the House struggled for understanding, reaching for the memories
stored within its drapes and dungeons scenes that had been registered
within it somehow, even when it had slept through the years.

The dragon was dead that much was obvious. For untold centuries, the
accursed Vicia-Heinox had been discussed and cursed within these halls.
The dragon had straddled the Central Pass of the One Land, obstructing
traffic and making a general nuisance of himself. Such a nuisance, in
fact, that the One Land had been broken into three warring states, and
the Central Pass had come to be called Dragonsgate.

The dragon had devoured humans voraciously in those days long ago. The
House cared little about the consunuVation of persons, of course. With
a few exceptions, one human was much like another, and it took real
concentration to tell them apart. But the castle had been bothered
considerably by the beast's utter lack of concern for structures. Some
fine old manors had perished in the dragon's fires, in that first great
period of burning. Indeed, some of the castle's own towers had been
scorched by

Towers! the House exclaimed, and it quickly surveyed its own present
condition.

Amazing, murmured a window sash, as the castle noted a thousand years