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Loren L Loren L. Coleman

"Bloodlines"



(Magic: the Gathering. Artifact cycle. Book IV.)





Preface

THE LEGACY



Barrin paused in the classroom's open doorway, his

charitable mood fading.

Barely an hour returned to the Tolarian Academy, the

master mage had decided to walk a quick tour of the main

building before retiring, a habit he formed over his many

years as the academy's chief administrator. Tonight it

possessed the added benefit of giving Rayne a chance to finish

her own unpacking. Her private apartment was not far down

Scholar's Row from his own, and when she finished, he thought,

they might linger over a second exchange of goodnights

Seeing light spilling down the tiled hallway, Barrin

decided to offer assistance to what was certainly tutors up

late preparing the next day's lessons. Students, of course,

obeyed a strict curfew, and the academy's full scholars

rarely, if ever, required such late-night preparations. Rayne

was likely to be waiting for him-a slight twinge against his