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By Patricia A. McKillip

ISBN-10: 0441013600

ISBN-13: 9780441013609

ISBN-10: 0786560649

ISBN-13: 9780786560646

Now, for the 1st time, Patricia A. McKillip offers a booklet of formerly uncollected brief stories-full of lovely dragons, rueful princesses, and good-looking bards, and written within the attractive, and infrequently strangely humorous, prose she is understood for. this is often her international, wrapped up within the finery of fairy stories.

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Hulme asked sourly. She looked at him without seeing him, envisioning a land beyond ten thousand oak, the land whose heart-voice was the cothone. “To their winter ritual. The Bard of Daghian is welcome . ” She turned to Sere, her brows slanting upward perplexedly. ” “Invited,” he said. He touched one of the minute blue jewels on the bridle, his face harsh with conflicting memories. 52 Patricia A. ” She watched him a moment, uneasy, glimpsing his emotions like a complex instrument she had not been trained to play.

A Matter of Music 49 “It’s a matter of peace and war,” Breaugh said shortly, and turned back to the account book. But his brows were drawn. ” Hulme demanded. ” He shoved his chair back suddenly, stood up. He added to the porter, “All right. ” He stood behind Sere, laid his hands on his brother’s shoulders. “Corn husks. That’s all I understand of it. ” He touched a flat, thin tongue of wood. ” Sere’s eyes had not moved from Cresce’s face as she gazed down at the odd bundle of items. “A cothone reed.

He pushed at her, flung her toward the sea. Fire sputtered around them. Ice slid under her; she slipped and clutched at the jagged rim of it. Brine splashed in her face. The ice whirled, as chunks of the mountain fell into the sea around them. The dragon was circling the mountain, melting huge peaks and cliffs. They struck the water hard, heaving the icefloes farther from the island. The mountain itself began to break up, as ice tore away from it, leaving only a bare peak riddled with mine shafts.

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