Phoenix in the Ashes by Vinge Joan D

Author:Vinge, Joan D. [Vinge, Joan D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780708882047
Google: SnORAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0708882048
Goodreads: 3616111
Publisher: FUTURA PUBLICATIONS
Published: 1985-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Lord Buckry sighed as memories receded, and with them the gnawing desire to seek out the peddler’s cave again: the desire that had been with him for thirty years. There lay the solutions to every problem he had ever faced, but he had never tested Jagged’s warning. It wasn’t simply the risk, though the risk was both deadly and sufficient‍—it was the knowledge that however much he gained in this life, it was ephemeral, less than nothing, held up to a man whose life spanned half that of humanity itself. Within the peddler’s cave lay the impossible, and that was. why he would never try to take it for his own.

Instead he had turned to the possible and made it fact, depending on himself, and on the strangely clear view of things the peddler had left him. He had solved every problem alone, because he had had to. and now he would just have to solve this one alone too.

He stared down with sudden possessive pride over the townfolk in the square, his city of Fyffe now ringed by a sturdy wall … So the West and the South were together, for one reason, and one alone. It balanced the scales precariously against plenty of old hatreds, and if something were to tip them back again‍—A few rumors, well-placed, and they’d be at each other’s throats. Perhaps he wouldn’t even need to raise an army. They’d solve that problem for him. And afterward‍—

Lord Buckry began to smile. He’d always had a hankering to visit the sea.

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