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The Girl, The Apprentice, And The Dogs Of Iron
By Dave Luckett
Book Two of the Rhianna Chronicles

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Text copyright ┬й 2002 by Dave Luckett.

Originally published in Australia in 2002 by Omnibus Books under the title Rhianna and the Dogs of
Iron.

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To Penny, Dyan, and Celia, who always think I can do better, and who are invariably right.

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Chapter 1

The Clumsy Ones believed that the night was quiet, thought Eriseth. They were wrong, of course. In
truth, the dark was full of sound. Every tree whispered in its own special voice. The oaks creaked in the
chill night breeze, their bare twigs slithering gently over one another, and sounding quite different from the
dry tap-tap of the alders, or the muted sigh of the willows, or the low rush of the wind in the elms, like
distant water.

There were animal noises, too, scurryings and stealthy movements in the leaf litter on the forest floor.
Even the flight of the owl could be heard, the almost silent bird that her people called avanissaтАФthat is,
darkhunter. It could only be heard if you had the ears to hear it, of course.

Eriseth could hear snowflakes falling; she could hear the field mice twitching in their winter sleep among