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CHAMPIONS OF THE SIDHE

A Bantam Book I December 1984

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Copyright © 1984 by Kenneth C. Flint-Cover art copyright © 1984 by Don Maitz.
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BOOK I

BRES RETURNS

REBELLION

THE TOWER OF Glass thrust up from the sea like a blade of ice, chill and
deadly.

The planes of its four sides were formed of glass panels, level upon level,
joined by a web of lines so fine that at a distance each wall became a single
sheet of shining material. Like enormous mirrors they reflected the ocean and
the sky about with a cold, detached precision. In the slanting rays of the
dawn sun, the eastern face was a painful glare of blue-white diamond light. It
made the Tower seem all the more starkly alien, alone in that soft, sunflecked
expanse of level sea.

The soaring structure was set firmly in a base of smooth grey stone. And this
foundation was itself imbedded deeply in an island of jagged rock barely
larger than the Tower itself

The base, like the glass walls above, was devoid of openings, save at one
point. On the southern side, a knobby elbow of the island thrust into the sea,
forming a sizeable cove. Here, massive quays of the same smooth stone
stretched far out into the waters of the cove. And here, in a line along the
foundation wall, a dozen immense, square openings with heavy doors of a dull
grey metal gave access to the Tower's interior.

At the quays, a score of slender ships of a curiously smooth black metal were