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Page 73
... began to shift and skew , and overnight they tumbled into ruins . The wizard Merlin , at that time still a boy , unknotted the mystery . Beneath the building site , he declared , lay a pit , flooded by centuries of rain . The bog- gy ...
... began to shift and skew , and overnight they tumbled into ruins . The wizard Merlin , at that time still a boy , unknotted the mystery . Beneath the building site , he declared , lay a pit , flooded by centuries of rain . The bog- gy ...
Page 89
... began with the second marriage of a long - ago King . she He was an old man and a widower , and he had two children . His son , Childe Wynde , was fighting in a foreign war when the King remarried . His daughter , Marga- nteret - both ...
... began with the second marriage of a long - ago King . she He was an old man and a widower , and he had two children . His son , Childe Wynde , was fighting in a foreign war when the King remarried . His daughter , Marga- nteret - both ...
Page 109
... began to circle the walls ceaselessly , spew- ing its deadly venom at any living target . And thus began the lottery . Every day in the chill hour before the dawn , the peo- ple of Silene gathered in the square before the King's palace ...
... began to circle the walls ceaselessly , spew- ing its deadly venom at any living target . And thus began the lottery . Every day in the chill hour before the dawn , the peo- ple of Silene gathered in the square before the King's palace ...
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