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NIGHTSEER
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Scanned by Keleios; proofed by Nadie.

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v4.1 15th June 2002 (spelling, conversion and formatting errors fixed)

Contents
• Prologue
• 1—A Reluctant Dreamer
• 2—A Spell of Binding
• 3—Prophecy
• 4—An Answer
• 5—Into the Darkness
• 6—Blood Oath
• 7—Demon’s Edge
• 8—The White Dagger
• 9—Fire and Ice
• 10—The Only Thing More Sad
• 11—Chains
• 12—Alharzor
• 13—Harque the Witch
• 14—A Brass Horn Sounding
• 15—The Guardian’s Isle
• 16—A Matter of Magic

Prologue
Prophecy begins with a child’s nightmare.

Keleios did not know the dream was prophetic; she only knew it felt different from other
dreams.

Mother, Elwine the Gentle, stood at the top of a stairway. She smiled and beckoned with a
slender white hand. Keleios, the child, ran to her. Keleios saw her as very tall and very
beautiful, as only a mother can be. A blemish appeared on the woman’s face, a mere
darkening of the skin, but it grew. The blackness burst the skin in an oozing sore. A
second blackness raised on her forehead, and another, and another. Keleios held the white
hand, saying, “Mother what’s wrong?”
The woman screamed and fell to her knees, jerking her hand free from Keleios. Her
mother whispered, “Run.”

Keleios ran. The hallways were dark with flickering torches sending twisted shadows in
her path. And from one shadow stepped a woman. Harque the Witch formed from the
darkness. Keleios knew Harque did not like her mother, and the child had always been
afraid of the witch without knowing why. Harque said, “Where is the fair Elwine the
Gentle? Where is she now?”
Keleios screamed and ran back the way she had come. She ran, but the voice kept asking,
“Where is the fair Elwine the Gentle? Where is she now?”