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Book Information:
Genre: High/Epic Fantasy
Author: Kate Elliott
Name: The Burning Stone
Series: Volume Three of The Crown of Stars
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KATE ELLIOT

**VOLUME Three of CROWN OF STARS**

The Burning Stone


PROLOGUE
HE had ran this far without being caught, but he knew his Quman master
still followed him. Convulsive shudders shook him where he huddled in the brush
that crowded a stream. His robes were still damp. Yesterday he had eluded them
by swimming a river, but they hadn't given up. Prince Bulkezu would never allow
a slave to taunt him publicly and then run free..
At last he calmed himself enough to listen to the lazy flow of water and to
the wind rustling through leaves. Across the stream a pair of thrushes with
spotted breasts stepped into view, plump and assertive. Ai, God he was starving.
The birds fluttered away as if they had gleaned his thoughts instead of
insects. He dipped a hand in the water, sipped; then, seduced by its cold bite, he
gulped down handfuls of it until his skin ached. By his knee a mat of dead leaves
made a hummock. He turned it up and with the economy of long practice
scooped up a mass of grubs and popped them in his mouth. Briefly he felt their
writhing, but he had learned to swallow fast.
He coughed, hacking, wanting to vomit. He was a savage, to eat so. But
what had the Quman left him? They had mocked him for his preaching, and
therefore had taken his book and his freedom. They had mocked him for his
robes, his clean-shaven chin, and his proud defense of Lady and Lord and the
Circle of Unity between female and male, and therefore treated him as they did