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1 THE LIGHT AND THE FAIR 1
2 ANCIENT TIME 17
3 THE SHIP O THE YIRD 36
PAPER TIGERS 76
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5 THE CHURCH OF MAN 101
6 LIGHT WEAPONS 132
THE CLAIMANT BAR 163
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8 WESTERN APPROACHES 193
9 THE SICKLE'S SANG 219
10 FORGET BABYLON 240
11 THE ROCK COVENANT 273
12 DARK ISLAND 300
THE SEA EAGLE 340
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14 FINAL ANALYSIS 359
15 THE HAMMER'S HARVEST 402
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THE LIGHT AND THE FAIR



So it came that Menial found him
in the square at Carron Town


S he walked through the fair in the light of
a northern summer evening, looking for me. Of
the hundreds of people around her, the thousands
in the town and the thousands on the project, only
I would serve her purpose. My voice and visage,
mind and body were her target acquisition
parameters.
I sat on the plinth of the statue of the Deliverer,
drained a bottle of beer and put it carefully down
and looked around, screwing up my eyes against the
westering sun. The music faded for a moment, then
another band struck up, something rollicking and
loud that echoed off the tall buildings around three
sides of the square and boomed out from the open
side across the shore and over the water. The still
sealoch was miles of gold, the distant hills and is-
lands stacks of black. The air was warm and shaking
with the music and heavy with scent and sweat,
2 KEN MACLEOD