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XXXVIII. Horse Mother

XXXIX. The Goddess

Epilogue: A Different-Colored Spring




ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For Moral Support: John Keyes, Tim Keyes, Earl Ridout, Helen Ridout

For Criticism: Ken Carleton, Veronica Chapman, Gene Crawford,

Tom Deitz,

Pat Duffy, Nell Keyes

And for Hard Work:

Christine Levis




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PROLOGUE

Death

Ghe plunged his steel into the pale man’s belly, watched the alien gray eyes widen in shock, then narrow
with terrible satisfaction. He yanked to withdraw his blade and, in that flicker of an instant, realized his
mistake. The enemy edge, unimpressed by its wielder’s impalement, swept down toward his exposed
neck.

Li, think kindly of my ghost, he had time to think, before his head fell into the dirty water. Even then, for

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 THE BLACKGOD

just a moment, he thought he saw something strange; a column of flame, leaping out of the muck,
towering over Hezhi. Then something inexorable swallowed him up.

Death swallowed him and took him into her belly. Dark there, and wet, he swirled about, felt that last,
bright blow like a line of ice laid through his neck flutter again and again and again, hummingbird-wings