"Marta Randall - The Sword of Winter" - читать интересную книгу автора (Randall Marta)

Epilogue

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the
author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright ┬й 1983 by Marta Randall

Maps Copyright ┬й 1983 by M. M. Roessner-Herman

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for
Richard Karl Bergstresser
with love


Acknowledgments
Special thanks are due to Debbie Notkin and Rebecca Kurland for
helping me tie this all together. Thanks are also due to Harris Zimmerman
for his encouragement and patience; Howard Cohen for the cold stuff;
Richard Curtis, Henry Holmes, and David G. Hartwell for helping turn a
manuscript into a book; and to the South Fork of the American River, for
keeping me sane.




ONE

Emris
^┬╗
It was night by the time she drew near the village. She reined in Darkness
on the last shoulder of hill, leaning forward to pat his shaggy neck while
she surveyed the valley. In the light of the full moon the river shone like