Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
They were selling a proteus in the public auctionplace at Borlaam, when the stranger wandered by. The stranger's name was Barr Herndon, and he was a tall man, with a proud, lonely face. It was not the face he had been born with, though his own had been equally proud, equally l...
They were selling a proteus in the public auctionplace at Borlaam, when the stranger wandered by. The stranger's name was Barr Herndon, and he was a tall man, with a proud, lone...
2. CHAPTER IIHerndon had been gone from Borlaam for a year, before this day. A year before--the seventeenth of the reign of the Seigneur Krellig--a band of looters had roared through his hom...
3. CHAPTER IIIHe bound himself over to the surgeon later that afternoon, after money to the amount of ten thousand, nine hundred thirty golden stellors had been deposited to his name in the R...
4. CHAPTER IVThe voyage to Molleccogg lasted a week, absolute time aboard ship. After their night together, Herndon had occasion to see the Lady Moaris only twice more, and on both occasions...
5. CHAPTER VA month later, he arrived on Borlaam via the freighter _Dawnlight_, as scheduled, and passed through customs without difficulty despite the fact that he was concealing more than...
6. CHAPTER VIAt the end of the week, Herndon visited the Avenue of Bronze and learned from Bollar Benjin that sales of the starstones proceeded well, that the arrangement under royal patrona...