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Swords in the Mist [Book 3 of the "Fafhrd and Gray Mouser" series]
by Fritz Leiber
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Copyright (c)1968 by Fritz Leiber


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*I: THE CLOUD OF HATE*
Muffled drums beat out a nerve-scratching rhythm, and red lights
flickered hypnotically in the underground Temple of Hates, where five thousand
ragged worshipers knelt and abased themselves and ecstatically pressed
foreheads against the cold and gritty cobbles as the trance took hold and the
human venom rose in them.
The drumbeat was low. And save for snarls and mewlings, the inner
pulsing was inaudible. Yet together they made a hellish vibration which
threatened to shake the city and land of Lankhmar and the whole world of
Nehwon.
Lankhmar had been at peace for many moons, and so the hates were
greater. Tonight, furthermore, at a spot halfway across the city, Lankhmar's
black-togaed nobility celebrated with merriment and feasting and twinkling
dance the betrothal of their Overlord's daughter to the Prince of Ilthmar, and
so the hates were redoubled.
The single-halled subterranean temple was so long and wide and at the