along the deck and called out, “Look smart, men. You heard th’ cap’n. Set those sails brisk, f’r surely we’re bound on a venture grand th’ loiks o’ which th’ w’rld has ne’er seen.”

And with all silks flying in a following wind and filled to the full-mains and studs, jibs and spanker, staysails, topsails, gallants and royals, skysails and moonrakers and starscrapers-and with a luminous white wake churning aft in the night-dark Avagon Sea, her waters all aglimmer with the spangle of light from the stars above, westerly she ran, the Elvenship Eroean , the fastest ship in all the seas.

She was bound for the rim of the world and beyond. .

. . the rim of the world. .

. . and beyond. .

54

Dark Designs

DARK DESIGNS

SPRING, 6E10

In a tall tower hidden deep in the Grimwall, that long and ill-omened mountain chain slashing across much of Mithgar, a being of dark Magekind sat in his dire sanctum and brooded about retribution.

A single thought occupied all of his waking hours. .

. . Aravan must die.

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