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Part I - THE FALL


I

"THERE WERE ANGELS in Heaven in those days, and there were demons, and the demons were the
creators and the creation of chaos...

"In that distant battle between the fires of the demons and the ice lances of the angels, the
very skies twisted in upon themselves, and the angels, who came from cold Heaven, were cast down
and strewn across the stars.

"Those angels, the first and last from far Heaven, when they found the world, knew not where
they were, nor could they see even the stars from whence they had come. And they descended unto
the Roof of the World.


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"There they built the Citadel of the Winds, the tower called Black, with those chained
lightnings yet they had retained, carving unto themselves a high refuge and a reminder of their
past.

"So as they had come, so earlier had come those from the lands and heritage of the demons, and
those were men who believed not that women should wear blades nor speak their minds and thoughts.

"In the time of that first summer came armsmen, inspired by the demons, and there were battles
across the Roof of the World, and blood ...

"Thus continued the conflict between order and chaos, between those who would force order and
those who would not, and between those who followed the blade and those who followed the spirit.

"Of the great ones were the angel Ryba, Nylan of the forge of order and the fires of Heaven,
Saryn of the dark blades of death, and Ayrlyn of the songs. ..."
Book of Ayrlyn
Section I
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II

"WHAT ARE YOU going to do when you get back to Heaven? Visit your family?" asked Saryn in a low
voice, barely audible above the hiss of the ventilators. As second pilot, she had control of the
Winterlance while the captain dozed in the command couch. Saryn's eyes were glazed, her mind half
on the neuronet.
"I'll probably think about that when the time comes. Might be a long time," pointed out Nylan.
"Headquarters has extended all flight officers' tours another two years." The engineer's thoughts
flicked across the power net, only a section of the full neuronet, as he answered.