ALFRED GULPED, SINKING ONTO A FLAT ROCK. “I have to rest.” The last panicked dash and the fall of the mountain on top of him had been too much for the Sartan. He sat hunched over, wheezing and gasping. Marit cast a disdainful glance at him, then one at Haplo. Then she looked away. I told you, sai...
said Lord Gunthar. He thought he was talking in a low voice, but I heard him. I looked around, wondering where this other kender was that they were talking about. I knew it couldn't be me, because I'm one of the Heroes of the Lance. &nbs...
Caramon had already departed for work in the early morning dawn and Raistlin was putting his books together, preparatory to going to his school, when there was a knock on the door. Simultaneous with the knock, the door flew open and Tasslehoff Burrfoot jumped in. &nb...
15th Day, Month of Mishamont, Year 352 AC hat evening, as the sun was setting, Raistlin wrapped his potion jars carefully in cotton wool to prevent them from breaking, then packed them in a crate to carry them to Snaggle’s. He was glad for the chance to walk, to think as he walked, trying to deci...
He gestured to the bolt of fine cloth that lay between them on the counter, in the center of the trading post's one dingy, cluttered room. “Why, this was woven for a noble lord in the city of Palanthas itself. It's worth twice what you're offering me. Nay, thrice!” Matya w...
The commander ordered another ale. He mulled over what to do with the kender. He was considering lining them all up and using them for target practice, when he heard a commotion at the door, saw yet another messenger. Groaning inwardly, the commander was about to tell this latest nuisance to go r...
You have been witness to the calamities that have been the scourge of Krynn.... You must see now that this doctrine of balance will not work! "... I can sweep evil from this world! Destroy the ogre races! Bring the wayward humans into line! Find new homelands far away for ...
. . . . . There was no reply, only a low moaning sound. "Shh. It's all right. You have been hurt, but the enemy is gone. Drink this, it will ease the pain." Taking some herbs from a pouch, Raistlin mixed them i...
Grag’s opinion of it. Dray-yan sat at the large obsidian table in the late Lord Verminaard’s chambers and drank the last of his lordship’s elven wine. The aurak made a mental note to order the com-mander charged with battling the elves to send him another barrel. As...
She sat straight up in bed, irritated and annoyed. She was not generally a late sleeper; her usual time to rise being shortly before the gray light of dawn filtered through her window. She hated sleeping late. She was dull and listless, and her head ached. She felt as if she had spent the night c...
Pulled from her horse, she fought alone on foot. "She must be dead," said one angrily. "I saw her fall." "True, she fell, but her horse stood guard over her," said an- other, "and struck out with lashing hooves at any who dared ap- proach." But whether the beautiful destructor had perished or sur...
THE LORD kept his hand on the wrist even when he could no longer feel life pulsing through it. Xar sat silently, staring into the darkness, seeing nothing at first. And then, as time passed and the flesh in his fingers grew cool, Xar saw himself.An old man, alone with his dead.An old man, sitting...