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Firebird
by
Mercedes Lackey

Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
 Ilya Ivanovitch is the middle son of a self-proclaimed "tsar" who has put off
selecting an heir, preferring to let his eight sons thin their own ranks through
constant, sometimes brutal, fighting. Ilya's luck takes a fateful turn the day he sees
the legendary firebird, a beautiful magical hawk with a woman's face and feathers
made of flame. The old stories say that once you've seen the firebird, you can never
forget her, and you will never be satisfied with a common life. Ilya realizes the truth
of this when he begins to have strange dreams and then discovers he can understand
animal speech. Driven by curiosity, surviving by his wits (and through the help of a
few friends made along the way), he begins a journey that will bring him face to face
with the mysterious creatures of Russian folklore.



CHAPTER ONE


Another sliver of silvery-pale wood joined the tiny pile at Ilya Ivanovitch's feet,
and the rough shape in his hand became a little more foxlike. The wood rasped
against the sword calluses on his palm as Ilya narrowed his focus to the lumpy head,
turning the carving this way and that, frowning at it, oblivious to everything else.
Sun-rays baked through the linen tunic on his back with the fever-heat of high