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WIND FROM THE ABYSS
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely
coincidental.
Copyright ┬й 1978 by Janet E. Morris
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
thereof in any form.
A Baen Book
Baen Enterprises 8-10W. 36th Street New York, N.Y. 10018
First Baen printing, January, 1985. ISBN: 0-671-55932-X Cover art by Victoria
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Contents
I. In Mourning for the Unrecotlected
II. The Wages of Forgetful ness
III. Seeking Stance in the Time
IV. The Gulf of Alternate Conceptions
V. Draw to Crux
VI. An Ordering of Affairs
VI!. Into the Abyss
VIII. The Passing of Khys
IX. The Law Within
X. In Deference to Owkahen
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FRDMTH
Author's Note
Since, at the beginning of this tale, I did not recollect myself nor retain
even the slightest glftn-mer of such understanding as would have led me to an
awareness of the significance of the various occurrences that transpired at
the Lake of Horns then, I am adding this preface, though it was not part of my
initial conception, that the meaningful-ness of the events described by
"Khys's Estri" (as I have come to think of the shadow-self I was while the
dharen held my skills and memory in abeyance) not be withheld from you as they
were from me.
I knew myself not: I was Estri because the girl Carth supposedly found
wandering in the forest stripped of comprehension and identity chose that