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Deitz, Tom.
Bloodwinter : a tale of Eron / by Tom Deitz.

p. cm. (A Bantam spectra book)

ISBN 0-553-37863-5

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PS3554.E425B58 1999 813.54-dc21 98-39999

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Anita Wilson



PRELUDE: A SCENT OF BURNING
(ERON: APPROACHING GOLD STAR GAP - DEEP WINTER - DAY
LXXXVIII)
Spring, Amalian concluded, had arrived not an instant too early.

It had snowed as late as yester morn: thick, heavy flakes that had come wafting out of the northwest, as though the
mountains in Angen's Spine were airing out their linens for the Light. Which, she supposed, made her and the trek she
mastered among the larger, more recalcitrant motes of accumulated detritus. If The Eight dwelt in those gloomy peaks
behind her, which she doubted - or if the rocks themselves were subtly alive, which some of Common Clan averred -
they'd have to rise early indeed to loathe the cold season as much as she.

Oh, it had been beautiful enough in Stone-Hold-Winter, where the Fateing had sent her last Dark Half. The head-high