Katharine Kerr: The Spirit Stone

KATHARINE KERR

Book Five of The Dragon Mage

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2007

Copyright © Katharine Kerr 2007

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For all my readers without whom this series would not have existed

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Copyright COPYRIGHT Copyright Dedication Prologue: The Northlands Summer, 1159 Part I: Dun Deverry and The Westlands Spring, 983 Part II: The Westlands 1159 Keep Reading Author’s Note Glossary Appendices About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. Harper Voyager An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2007 Copyright © Katharine Kerr 2007 Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2020 Cover illustration by Andrew Davis Katharine Kerr asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or here in after invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks HarperCollins Publishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication Source ISBN: 9780007128730 Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007371167 Version: 2020-03-02

Dedication DEDICATION Dedication Prologue: The Northlands Summer, 1159 Part I: Dun Deverry and The Westlands Spring, 983 Part II: The Westlands 1159 Keep Reading Author’s Note Glossary Appendices About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher For all my readers without whom this series would not have existed

Prologue: The Northlands Summer, 1159 PROLOGUE The Northlands Summer, 1159 In some sense, every magician is a weaver, merely one who works with invisible strands of the hidden light. With it we weave our various forms, just as a weaver produces cloth, and then stitch them into the images we desire, just as a tailor sews cloth into a tunic or robe. If we be journeymen in our craft, forces will come to inhabit our forms, just as a person will come to buy the tunic and place it over his body. But if we have plumbed the secret recesses of our art, if we are masters of our craft, then we can both weave the forms and place our own bodies within them. The Pseudo-Iamblichos Scroll

Part I: Dun Deverry and The Westlands Spring, 983 PART I Dun Deverry and The Westlands Spring, 983 Every light casts a shadow. The dweomer light has cast a darkness of darkness. In that vile night creep those who once were men even as you, thinking that they craved secrets only to ease the suffering of the world. Somewhere along their way, the shadow crept over them unawares … The Secret Book of Cadwallon the Druid

Part II: The Westlands 1159

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