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Book Information:
Genre: Fantasy
Author: L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Name: Legacies
Series: Book One of The Corean Chronicles
Published: Hardback; October 2002
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Legacies
Book 1 of the Corean Chronicles

L.E. Modesitt Jr.




I

In the quiet of the early twilight of a late summer day, a woman sat in
a rocking chair under the eaves of the porch, facing east, rocking gently. Except
for the infant she nursed, she was alone, enjoying the clean evening air, air
swept of sand grit and dust by the unseasonal afternoon rain. So clear was the
silver-green sky that the still-sunlit Aerial Plateau stood out above the nearer
treeless rise that was Westridge, stood out so forcefully that it appeared yards
away rather than tens of vingts to the north and east.
She rocked slowly, looking down at her nursing son, a child already with dark
hair, more like deep gray than black. Through the open windows set in the heavy
stone walls, she could hear the occasional clatter of platters being replaced in
the cupboards, and the squeak of the hand pump.
The glittering and scattered light reflected from the quartz outcrop-pings on
the top edge of the distant and towering plateau died away as the sun dropped
farther. Before long, pinlights that were stars appeared, as did the small greenish
crescent that was the moon Asterta. The larger moon, Selena, had already set in
the west.
She brought the infant to her shoulder and burped him. "There... there, that's