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COVENANTS
prequel to Down Came a Blackbird

Barbara Karmazin
 Atlantic Bridge - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal
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Copyright (C)2003 Barbara Karmazin
First Published by Atlantic Bridge Publishing, September 2003


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 Chapter One

Nathanial watched Lilith pace past the tall casement windows of the
dining room. He knew better than to disturb her while she sorted out her
thoughts. In 1962, after the Ash Wednesday storm destroyed the other
sisterlines, she and Shiloh fled the pain and confusion of so many deaths
and wandered the country.
Eighty years had passed since then. Time and distance had erased the
total familiarity and acceptance they'd shared with him as oathsister and
oathbrother by caterdru bonding.
He hadn't realized how much he missed the emotional link of his
drubond with them until they returned, but it didn't matter. They came
home. Together, they would learn to be a family again.
Lilith paused in front of the windows. The last rays of the setting sun
transformed her platinum hair into a brilliant halo.
Great Aunt Elizabeth rose from the window seat and stared up at her
niece. Lilith towered over the older woman.
Elizabeth said, тАЬWe need you here.тАЭ
Lilith laid her hand on the diminutive woman's shoulder. тАЬYou're the
eldest female of our sisterline. By all rights, you should be the one to de-
cide in this matter.тАЭ
Aunt Elizabeth shook her head. Soft gray curls framed her nut-brown
face. тАЬI am too old for this fight. That's why I called you home when he