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Child Of Thunder



Renshai 03



Mickey Zucker Reichert



Copyright (c) 1993




To Sheila Gilbert, one of the very best, and to Old Man Mikie, just because.



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS



I would like to thank the following people: Jonathan Matson, Jody Lee, Charon Wood, David Moore,
and Mark Moore and to Benjamin and Jonathan Moore, for understanding when page proofs come
before Nintendo.(tm).



"Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned,
would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world."Joseph Addison Horace , Odes,
book III, ode iii




PROLOGUE



Silence filled the women's court in the EasternkingdomofStalmize , broken only by occasional tense
whispers from the spectators. Khitajrah stood near the far end of the courtroom, her head bowed and
her back to the murmuring crowd. She faced the three-man tribunal who sat, with stony expressions, at
their long table. Behind them, a doorway led to their chambers where they had deliberated for less time
than it took for the woman's heart to beat two dozen strokes. Khitajrah never doubted they would find
her guilty. It was only the sentence that remained a mystery: imprisonment, mutilation, death.
 Khitajrah raised her head slightly, her curly, shoulder-length black hair falling into eyes nearly as dark.
Directly beside her, the guard stirred, attentive to her movement, though he did not otherwise respond to