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L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

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For Nancy and Kennet, in the trinity of time

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel
are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
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Copyright © 2005 by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
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Lord Ghrant's Mage

I
You sure you'd not be wanting more, ser?" The ample Adelya stood in the archway
from the kitchen to the breakfast room.
Kharl smiled as he eased back the straight-backed oak chair and stood. He
glanced down at the green-trimmed white plate-it was the plain china-on which
remained a half slice of egg toast. "More, Adelya? I couldn't finish everything
you cooked. It's been a long time since I've eaten so well." That wasn't quite
true. He'd eaten that well as Lord Ghrant's guest in Dykaru, but, he reflected,
he'd never eaten under his own roof as he had for the last two eightdays.
He still had trouble believing that he was lord of Cantyl. He'd studied the
figures laid out in the ledger by Speltar, the estate steward, and seen and
counted the golds in the strong room below. He was wealthy, if modestly so by
the standards of lords, and that was something he'd never expected, never
dreamed. Not for a man who had been a cooper in Brysta most of his life, and a
carpenter's assistant on the Seastag after he'd been forced into exile by Lord
West's son Egen.
From that exile had come all the events-and the magely talents-that had led
him to become lord and master of Cantyl and its lands. Cantyl was a modest