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I don’t know what dangers to watch for, much less how to fight them. ’Tis a strange and dangerous world, Thomas told himself as he slipped down the city’s darkened corridors. An odd trap that Maggie’s enemies had left for her. As he slipped from his room, Thomas considered the rose they’d found outside Maggie’s room a few hours ago-a delicate thing, lustrous as pearl until the petals on it began spinning like a pinwheel, slicing open the Lord Mayor of Toohkansay. Thomas understood why the dronon would want to seize these things.īut he couldn’t understand why some humans sympathized with the dronon. Folks here had more food than they could eat, comfortable homes, the promise of lives extended for thousands of years. He understood why the dronon sought to conquer mankind. His kin on Tihrglas thought them to be demons. So far, Thomas hadn’t met the dronon monsters. But this world held dangers as great as its wonders. He’d seen wondrous things-men flying on mechanical wings, doors that let you walk from one world to another.
So when Gallen told Thomas that he had to come to Tremonthin with him and Maggie, Thomas’s first inclination, and last, was to run.Īs he packed his bags, he wondered if he was doing right. A good pair of legs and a keen eye for the nearest thicket could extricate a man from most situations. He felt a deep warning in his heart-“It’s a hero they want, someone to brandish a sword, not a minstrel with an overlarge gut and gaudy attire.” Some folks might ascribe such misgivings to cowardice, but Thomas held with certain sects of priests who would call it “inspiration.” You should always listen to that inner voice, they’d say, and this time Thomas agreed. The truth was that, though Gallen and Maggie determined to run off to Tremonthin to fight the Inhuman, Thomas knew he shouldn’t go. But he’d won the contempt of better people. Oh, he knew Maggie would damn him for the deed and curse him till the day he died-and beyond. When Thomas Flynn deserted his niece in her hour of need, he did it with the best intentions.
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