"Roberta Gellis - Thrice Bound" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gellis Roberta)

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ISBN: 0-671-31834-9

Cover art by Carol Heyer
Interior map by Charles Gellis

First printing, August 2001

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Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America

To my most excellent agent, Lucienne Diver, and to her charming husband Peter and the
adorable Tynan.

LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG!

Now it was Hekate's turn to sigh. "You can't ignore a binding. It grows tighter and heavier until your
body fails and your spirit is broken." She took his hand in hers. "That's why I know I must break your
binding, why I don't beg you simply to leave the caves. I would stay if I could. You are the only friend I
have ever had, Kabeiros . . . and I'm afraid to go alone, Mother knows where . . . I'm afraid." Her voice
died to a whimper.

He didn't answer, but tears streaked his face.

"How are you bound?" Hekate pleaded. "I beg you to tell me. I will find a way to break the binding. I
swear it. I swear that if you must drink babies' blood if you leave the caves, I'll find some way to supply
you. I will not turn from you. I will protect you no matter how horrible your secret."

"Will you?"

He laughed wildly, jumped up, and rushed out of the cave into the pale pinky-blue light of first dawn.
And the man Kabeiros was gone! A huge black dog staggered a few steps, shaking himself free of
Kabeiros' tunic, then threw up his head and howled pathetically.

BAEN BOOKS by ROBERTA GELLIS
Bull God
 Thrice Bound



PART ONE: THE
BINDINGS
CHAPTER 1