DragonLance Heroes II Trilogy
Volume II
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The Gates of Thorbardin
written by
Dan Parkinson
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Dedication
Stories grow from stories told,
So no tale's ever ended
While there's yet new among the old.
It's thus that lore's extended.
The Gates of Thorbardin is dedicated to whomever finds
the gnomish island-vessel, or solves the mystery of
Garon Wendesthalas, or tells the whole tale of Caliban
and Kolanda, or can chronicle the entire Battle of Way-
keep.
Part 1
The Dream Chaser
Chapter 1
Even here, in this cold crevasse split deep and
narrow into living mountain stone... even here, where
he could go no farther, where his aching body squeezed
so tightly between serrated walls of cutting stone that his
back was raw and bleeding... even here, where no
roads came and the only trails were paths of small things
passing....
Even here, he knew they would find him.
At least one of them would come, drawn by the scent
of his blood - would come up through the riven rock and
find him cornered. There were too many of them on the
slopes below, too well spread as they hunted upward, for
all of them to miss him where he hid. One would come.
One would come to kill him.
He had watched them coursing the field like a hunter's
pack. From a ledge where the tumbled stone lay gro-
tesque in the shadows of the sheers above, he had seen
them lose his scent. They had spread wide, casting about
