Icefalcon’s Quest

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BARBARA HAMBLY

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Rudy Solis shook his head. He, too, had changed, the Icefalcon thought, over the past seven years. Like Gil-Shalos he was an outlander, son of an alien world. When they had arrived in the train of Ingold the Wizard on the morning following the final destruction of Gae, the Icefalcon had guessed immediately that Gil-Shalos, who now sat beside him in the loose black clothing of the Guards, would survive. He had seen the warrior in her eyes.

Rudy he had not been so sure of. Even after the young man had found in himself the powers of the Wise Ones – powers that evidently did not exist or were not accessible to humans in his own world – the Icefalcon would not have bet the runt of a pot dog’s litter on Rudy’s survival. He might do so today, he thought, but not much more. For all that Rudy had been through, under Ingold’s tutelage and on his own, like many civilized people he lacked the cutting blade of hardness in his soul.

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