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Lynan laughed wryly at his own pride. Some prince of the realm: exiled to the Oceans of Grass, with a future only the greatest optimist would find any hope in, and now plagued by desires that were inhuman. Areava would not be surprised, of course, she always thought of him as almost less than human. He could remember vividly their last conversation on the palace’s south gallery only hours before Berayma was murdered; he had seen in her eyes then how she truly thought of him.
With that memory came a very human anger, and the emotion threw out the last vestige of his unnatural hunger.
His confidence renewed if not wholly restored, Lynan walked back past the sentry and into the camp. He reached his tent and looked east, back toward civilization, back toward his enemies. He imagined Areava in her throne room, thinking he was dead and celebrating the fact, Berayma’s murderers by her side.
If only she knew what had truly become of him.
The
INHERITANCE
FIRE AND SWORD
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Fire and Sword
Book Two of
SIMON BROWN
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Copyright © 2001 Simon Brown
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DAW Book Collectors No. 1287.
Cover art by Romas.
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For Guy Miklenda, Janet Delfosse,
and Del Delfosse.
Also family.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
All my thanks to my readers, Alison Tokley and Sean Williams, and to my editors, Julia Stiles, Stephanie Smith and Debra Euler. Thanks to them this is a better book than it would otherwise have been. Many thanks also to my agents, Garth Nix and Russell Galen, for all their wondrous efforts on my behalf.
