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The Tree Lord of Imeten
Tom Purdom




CONTENTS
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VIII
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XIII
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I
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J oe P ersa's body lay in the dirt less than twenty meters from the tractor.
He saw it every time he peered around the front tread. Blood stained all the
ground around it and there was a big hump underneath the jacket. The
metal-tipped arrow, released at close range, had smashed through clothing,
muscle, bone and heart as if it were an Eighteenth Century cannon ball
crashing into wood, and when Joe had stopped in midstride and toppled
forward, the weight of his body had pushed the point out his back. His lips
curled back every time he looked at it. Anger was the only response death
ever provoked from him. Five years ago, when this planet had finally killed
his mother and his young sister, his anger had sent him stalking across the
plateau late at night with a fury which his sixteen year old mind had naively
assumed was the unexceedable limit of the indignation a human being can
endure. And this morning, when he had looked out the window and seen his
father and his best friend crumple before the rifles of Emile Detterman and