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As the Sun Goes Down

White and Other Tales of Ruin

Fears Unnamed




ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TIM LEBBONlives in South Wales with his wife and two children. His books includeFace, The Nature
of Balance, Changing of Faces, Exorcising Angels (with Simon Clark),Dead ManтАЩs Hand, Pieces of
Hate, Fears Unnamed, White and Other Tales of Ruin, Desolation, Berserk, andDusk . Other recent
publications includeHellboy: Unnatural Selection from Simon & Schuster, plus books from Cemetery
Dance, Night Shade Books, and Necessary Evil Press. There are more Noreela novels coming from
Bantam, as well as two novels in collaboration with Christopher Golden. He has won two British Fantasy
Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, a Shocker, a Tombstone Award, and has been a finalist for
International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards. Several of his novels and novellas are currently
under option in the United States and Great Britain.



Find out more about Tim at his website,www.timlebbon.net .



Visit the dedicated website forDusk andDawn atwww.noreela.com .




Chapter 1

SOARING HIGH ABOVENoreela, it was easy to believe that the world had ended again.

The evidence of scared, scattered communities lay spread out below, all of them illuminated against a
darkness that should not be. Ten thousand faces would be searching for the sun but seeing only this
unnatural dusk, and Lenora wondered what they would think were they to spy the hawk. Would they
know? Would they have any inkling of what they were looking at?
She thought not. But soon that would change.

For most of the night, Lenora had been trying to avoid the MagesтАЩ attention. She sat motionless and
silent, as far back on the hawkтАЩs tail as she could go, two short swords buried in the creatureтАЩs hide to
provide precious handholds. She watched her masters with a sense of fear the likes of which she had
never felt before. The Mages had changed so much. They were strangers to her now.

For the past three hundred years, Angel and SтАЩHivez had existed bitter and angry, given to lengthy
musings on revenge. Lenora had served them and listenedтАФtheir trusted lieutenantтАФand over time they