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have to search a little to find a copy, but if you'd rather read it, you can.

Thank you all, for pestering your bookstores for King Kobold, and bringing it out
of hiding again. Here it is, the same story—what happened to Rod and Gwen
when they'd only been married a few years, and only had one baby warlock to
contend with. I hope you enjoy it. I did.

—Christopher Stashef f Montclair State College October 4,


Prologue
"Sorrowful it was, and great cause for Mourning, that so young a King should
die, and that in his Bed; yet Death doth come to all, yea, the High and the lowly
alike, and 'tis not by our choosing, but by God's. Thus is was that King Richard
was taken from us in the fourteenth year of his Reign, though he had not yet seen

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forty-five summers; and great lamentation passed through the land. Yet must
Life endure, and the motion of it never doth cease, so that we laid him to rest
with his ancestors, and turned our faces toward our new Sovereign, his daughter
Catharine, first Queen of that name to Reign, though it had been scarcely twenty
years since her birth.

"Then the Lords of this land of Gramarye sat them down in Council, and rose up
to advise the young Queen of her actions, and at their head stood the Duke
Loguire, time-honored and revered, foremost of the Lords of this Land, and
Uncle to the Queen. Yet she would not hearken to him, nor to any of her Lords,
but set her face toward the doing of things as she saw them, and would not heed
Council. And what she wished done, she set in the hands of the Dwarf Brom
O'Berin, who had come to the Court as her father's Jester, but King Richard had
raised him to Chancellor; and Queen Catharine ennobled him. This did affront
all the Peers of the Land, that she should set a Dwarf in their midst, and he
baseborn, for she would trust none among them.

"Then did Loguire send his younger son Tuan, who long had courted Catharine
ere her Father died, to beg of her that she plight him her Troth, and come with
him to the Altar to become his Wife. And she called this foul treason, that he
should seek the Crown under guise of her Hand, and banished him from the land,
and set him adrift in a coracle, that the East wind might take him to the Wild
Lands, to dwell among Monsters and BeastMen, though all of his crime was the
love of her. Then was his father full wroth, and all the Lords with him; but
Loguire held his hand, and so, perforce, must they all; but Tuan his son swam
back to the shore, and stole within the Land again, by night, and would not be
exiled.