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ISBN: Hardcover 1-892065-72-X Soft cover 1-892065-73-8

First Baen Ebook, April 2007



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Chapter I: An Unfortunate
Arrival
1st of Summer
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The sun's descending rim touched the white peaks of the Snowthorns, kindling veins of fire down their
shadowy slopes where traces of weirding lingered. Luminous mist, smoking out of high fissures, dimmed
the setting sun. A premonitory chill of dusk rolled down toward the valley floor like the swift shadow of
an eclipse. Leaves quivered as it passed and then were still. Birds stopped in mid-note. A moment of
profound stillness fell over the Riverland, as if the wild valley had drawn in its breath.


Then, from up where the fringed darkness of the ironwoods met the stark heights, there came a long,
wailing cry, starting high, sinking to a groan that shook snow from bough and withered the late wild
flowers of spring in the upland meadows. Thus the Dark Judge greeted night after the first fair day of
summer:


All things end, light, hope, and life.Come to judgment.Come!