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Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright ® 1991 by Barbara Hambly

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America
by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of
Canada Limited, Toronto.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 91-91971

ISBN 0-345-37101-1

Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition: September 1991
Cover Art by Romas
Map by Shelly Shapiro




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The Rainbow Abyss




For Mary Ann




ONE
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“IT MAY NOT HAPPEN HERE.”

“That’s what they said about the Plague.”
Shavus Ciarnin, Archmage of the Order of the Morkensik Wizards, flashed an irritated
look at his old friend’s pupil—Rhion the Brown merely pushed his spectacles a little
more firmly into place on the bridge of his nose with one pudgy forefinger and returned
the glare calmly. Old Jaldis the Blind brushed a tendril of milk-white hair from the
tattered blanket that wrapped his thin shoulders and moved a little closer to the brown
wall of chimney bricks which was the tiny attic’s only source of heat. “So they did,” he
observed mildly. “I do not see how it can happen here… or how it could have happened
at all. But this lack of understanding on my part does not alter the fact that it has
happened there…”
“Don’t be a fool,” Ciarnin snapped irritably. His scarred, sun-darkened face seemed to
darken still further, cold blue eyes appearing very light in their deep sockets. “Magic
can’t just cease to exist! Magic is! It’s an element, like the light of the sun, like the air we