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The Reaches of the Dark

Gil Patterson thought her vision of the strange city was all a dreaht in her kitchen, seeking a place to bring the infant Prince of Dare fro the city of Gae

Rudy Solis didn&039;t believe in wizards and e, with an infant in his arms, beside the place where Rudy had stopped to fix his car

But when one of the old&039;s wake, their only escape was back with the wizard to the embattled world froic worked within a logic of its own And it was a world where the loathsootten in underground lairs for three thousand years Gae had fallen, and the city of Karst was ja was dead, and proud, aent for the infant Prince Tir, as brother to the young Queen Minalde - or Aide, as most called her

Then the Dark struck in , Gil discovered that even a graduate student of history could beco Queen to save her child again froan the long, agonizing h trails choked with snow and buffeted bythe leaders was asDark and the White Raiders, ere co from the plains to loot Alwir and the fanatic lady Govannin, Bishop of the Church, were engaged in a struggle for power And both feared Ingold -the Bishop because all wizardry was evil in her Faith

To Gil and Rudy, unused to the hardships of freezing cold and day-after-day , the trip was hard But Gil found herself accepted as one of the Guards, the elite fighting force of Gae And Rudy found that Aide returned his love His joy in this was equalled only by his discovery that he could call up fire - and by Ingold&039;s promise to teach him to be a wizard

In the end, through the efforts of Ingold, soht thousand people reached the monstrous, black Keep, built three thousand years before by wizardry as a defence against the previous scourge of the Dark There, in its vast chaos of deserted aisles and chah the perils before them were many and terrible

Yet soer had any desire to return across the Void to their oorld