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A Tom Doherty Associates Book New York

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are
used fictitiously.

THE RING OF FIVE DRAGONS Copyright © 2001 by Eric Van Lustbader

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Library of Congress Cataoging-in-Publicaton Data

Lustbader, Eric.

The ring of five dragons / Eric Van Lustbader.—1st ed.

p. cm.—(The pearl saga ; bk. 1) "A Tom Doherty Associates book." ISBN 0-312-87235-6 (acid-free
paper) I. Title.

PS3562.U752 R56 2001 813'.54—dc

First Edition: May

Printed in the United States of America




For Victoria, always and forever




THE
RING of FIVE DRAGONS
PROLOG:
The Lorg
When they were fifteen years old, Giyan and Bartta found a lorg. It was hiding, as lorgs are wont to do,
beneath a large flat rock of a golden hue lying like a wart on the belly of a bone-dry gully. Konara