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SHALLOWS OF NIGHT
Sunset Warrior Book 2
By

Eric Van Lustbader
 Shallows of Night
ERIC VAN LUSTBADER
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC.
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
1978

All of the characters in the book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual
persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
First Edition
ISBN: 0-385-12968-8
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-12884
Copyright © 1978 by Eric Van Lustbader
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
For all the heroes
 Contents
One
•ICE•

Two
•AEGIR•

Three
•SHA'ANGH'SEI•

Four
•HART OF DARKNESS•
There is no journey's end.
—Bujun saying
 ONE

•Ice•
Soaring through frigid mists and roiling clouds, he stretches fully his long wings
upon the unpredictable currents. Streamers of silvered plumage, running bilaterally
across his wings and cresting his majestic questing head, ripple and blur in the wind.
He banks and dips. There is a moaning in his ears. His large liquid eyes stare
unblinkingly ahead at the immense eye of the setting sun, its face a broad and
flattened disk, wider at the sides as if caught in a vise of immeasurable proportions.
Then thick ribbons of cloud of a metallic gray ride before it like the ghostly remnants
of a once vast, victorious army, reaving it.
He banks again, deftly avoiding a treacherous downdraft, and turns his incurious
gaze beneath him, through the layers of cloud and mist, to the painful twisting of the
earth far below.
High peaks beaten by age and scraped by merciless weather, crowned in bitter
frost, sealed in pearl and emerald ice, thrust their humped backs in snaking lines