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A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
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ISBN: 0-7434-3544-3

Cover art by Carol Heyer

First printing, June 2002

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To Alan—our Bookhound—and
all the people who loved him.
Many thanks to suspects usual and new: to Barbara Gampt for things Ohio, to Judith, who always
catches the things no one else does, to Jennifer for the missing scene, to the SFF gang who cheered me
on, and to Jenni McPhail for trusting me with Phoenix Fire—who believes she should have her own book
but finally, after many food bribes, accepted that I couldn't change Lady from a courier-bred dun to a
grey Arabian in the middle of a series.

(And you may blame this book on Lucienne, who quite wickedly said "What if . . . ?")

WHOA!
With the trail juncture in sight and full of milling horses, Dun Lady's Jess broke into a startled canter.
"O-oh no," Arlen said, his teeth clicking as he bounced; he yanked on her mane, the only thing at hand.
"Whoa!"

And then Lady caught wind ofothers in the woods around them, closing in on them. With the sudden
downwind rustle of brush, a figure emerged from camouflage of leaves and dull brush almost at her feet.

"Whoa!" Arlen cried again, completely unaware of thoseothers , clenching her barrel with his long legs
and hauling on her mane. Metal slashed at them, gleamed dully along an astonishingly long blade—and
quite abruptly Lady did just as she'd been told, tucking her butt and dropping her head so Arlen flew
neatly over her withers, rolling onward and out of reach. The blade flashed down to score her shoulder
and she kicked out wildly. Ramble screamed, a stallion's challenge, and knocked her aside, knocked her
down —
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