They sat in a circle within the forest, and as they ate, Jack said, “There’s been a strangeness about you since we left Kathbeyanne. Something happened there, didn’t it?” Morgin hadn’t told them of Metadan’s prophesy, nor of his experience in the city of glass. He did so now, and when he finished...
He asked one of them to give Arthur a thorough exam. “He’s just stoned,” the medic said, “though I’ll add that he was close to an overdose. A little more and he might have died. He’s also suffering from mild malnutrition, though not as bad as what we went through in the pr...
For many days but had lain in a stupor of unawareness, passive, unknowing and uncaring. And then suddenly he looked in the eyes of a woman and realized he lay in the arms of an angel. “My lord,” she said softly, tracing her fingers across the enormous, ugly scar in the center of his chest. “It gl...
Many houses there didn’t have a garage, so most residents parked on the street. Mikhail found a parking place two blocks from the young woman’s house and killed the engine. He slipped the Glock out of its holster and checked the rounds in his magazine. Like any practitioner, he used special ammun...