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Chapter 37

Aremys waited outside the great doors that led into Cailech’s…


Chapter 38

Wyl was admiring Elysius’s handiwork. “You did this?” he asked…


Chapter 39

Fynch sat quietly with Elysius outside his small mud cottage…


Epilogue

The corpse of the former Duchess of Felrawthy had been…


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He slid off the saddle to unsteady feet. Too flustered to tether the horse, Wyl trusted it to remain where
he left it as he stumbled deeper into the copse and retched. The sickening need to be rid of the curse
seemed to last an eternity as he desperately tried to yield it, rip the sorcery free from its sinister grip. At
the rim of his addled mind Wyl acknowledged that this cold, moonlit night was too beautiful for
death…once again.

He believed he could taste the taint of the magic that had claimed his body hours earlier. Wyl did not
want to remember it, but it was so fresh, so horrific, so ugly in his mind, he could not banish it.
Commander Liryk of Briavel has smiled when the man called Romen Koreldy, newly banished from the
realm, had suggested the Forbidden Fruit for their overnight stay before leaving for whichever border he
chose. He had smiled in understanding, knowing that the mercenary had decided to drown his sorrows
within the soft and welcoming embrace of a whore in the region’s well-known brothel. And he had smiled
more widely when Romen had accepted the offer of Hildyth. The Commander had sampled her on a
previous occasion and had known there could be no better place for his grieving companion to lose
himself for a few hours. Wyl Thirsk, trapped in Koreldy’s body, had felt the same until the stiletto had
buried itself deep into his heart, trying to take his life. Except it had not. Romen’s body released its
trapped guest so it could travel…travel into Hildyth and claim her life instead.

It was not a new experience for Wyl. He had felt that same wrenching sense of despair once before and
even now could hardly believe it had happened once again. He was dry-retching now; knew he must