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§ three §A dim shape appears through the blowing snow in the distance. It is cold now, this far north. It is a young girl, a human girl. Alone. She stumbles and trudges through the snow drifts on this plain with nothing else beyond what the human eye can see but she can not see the one who sees her. She falls and gets back up. She falls again but this time she has lost the will to carry on. Her

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§ two §Waking could never have been so onerous, so miserable. He can feel and hear a very low hum emanating from the floor. Blearily he opens his eyes to find himself in a box, a cage barely large enough to turn around in. All is smooth metal. He can hear strange voices not so far off speaking in a tongue he does not know. He peers through the grate toward a dim light at the end of a not so long

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§ one §Dawns arrival brings with it the sounds of hushed business and small whisperings beyond the thin gohl-skinned tent. He lays there staring into the apex and listens as the tribe readies for the day. There is much to do with winter coming, the days that the Bright One travels farthest away from her people. It was said that the brightest star spent her time in winter to confer with the Others

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§ Prologue § I was once a boy and not the leader of men that I have become. The future then was not as I had imagined. And the death that I have evaded for so long will eventually claim me.Until then I have set about putting my life’s story to the pen. It is at times uncomplicated and at times intricate. To this day the losses of my youth have cleft my heart in two, for I realize that without

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Badach [bah-dok] : Banjirs grand-father.Banjir [ban-jeer]: A young woman of the Suuthe tribe.Blagan [blah-gen]: Jariris friend and neighbor.Jariri [juh-reer-ee] Onuups father.MaralMarichail [mair-i-keyl] Onuups mother.Onuup [ohn-yoop] A young boy of the Suuthe tribe.

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Ador [ ā-dōr ]1. the empire of Ador.2. the city of Ador.[Origin: unknown; a the + dor or dar heart]Bada [bah-dah]1. a word literally meaning baby or child.[Origin: Uruthe]Barryni [bah-ri-nee] double r's are rolled1. a neighboring tribe of the Suuthe along with numerous others living in the Northern Steppes.Freth [freth]1. strips of dried meat.Gohl [gohl]1. a large animal common to

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