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would have done it anyway, knowing him.” She tossed her head, as if shaking off a painful memory. “Well, there's no use in standing round here. Welcome home, Ebañy. We'll be sheltering tonight with your niece out at the dun.”

“My thanks,” Salamander said. “It's a strange enough welcome, but truly, it gladdens my heart to be home.”

Yet late that night, Salamander looked out of the window of his chamber high up in Cannobaen's broch. The moon laid a silver road upon the sea, a road that seemingly ran south to Bardek. He wept, thinking of his wife and family, so far away. Why had he left them? For a moment he hoped he was dreaming, but the scent of a real sea filled the room, and the stone of the windowsill felt rough against his fingers.

“Alaena,” he whispered. “Marka. Will I meet you again someday, my love, when we both have different faces, different names?”

All at once he felt so exhausted that he sat down on the straw-covered floor. He leaned against the cold stone wall and fell asleep, right where he was, to dream that he stood on a mountain peak and called out to a dragon, silver-skinned but touched here and there with blue.

THE FIRE DRAGON

A Bantam Spectra Book / January 2001

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Copyright © 2001 by Katharine Kerr

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