‘Fantasy as it ought to be written’ George R.R. MartinThe people of Getty's town remember the death of their cemetery soldier vividly. They remember believing him guilty of unspeakable crimes, condemning him, and then watching as other men of his unit beat him until he no longer drew breath.But Nevare Burvelle didn't die that day, though everyone believes they saw it happen. He was cornered by a power far more intractable than any angry mob.When he was a boy, the magic of the Specks – the dapple-skinned tribes of the frontier forests – claimed Nevare as a saviour; severing his soul in two, naming his stolen half Soldier's Boy and shaping him into a weapon to halt the Gernian expansion into their lands and save their beloved ancestor trees.Until now Nevare has defied the magic, unable to accept his traitorous fate. But the magic has won: it has extinguished his once golden future, devastated his family and has now turned his own people against him. Faced with endangering the only loved-ones he has left, Nevare has no choice but to surrender to its will and enter the forest.But surrendering to his Speck destiny is only the beginning of his trials. Before he submits completely, Nevare makes one desperate last attempt to deter the Gernians from the Barrier Mountains without causing them harm. But the magic accepts no compromise. Exhausted, Nevare can no longer suppress his traitorous Speck self, Soldiers Boy. Losing control, he becomes a prisoner in his own body; able only to watch helplessly as his other half takesSoldier's Boy is determined to stop the Gernian expansion at all cost, and unlike Nevare, he has no love, nor sympathy for his spirit-twin's world.
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Робин Хобб. Renegade’s Magic
Renegade’s Magic. Book Three of the Soldier Son Trilogy. Robin Hobb
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ONE. Soldier’s End
TWO. Flight
THREE. Lisana
FOUR. Mage Work
FIVE. The Other Side
SIX. Confrontations
SEVEN. Epiny’s Ultimatum
EIGHT. Quick-walk
NINE. Journey in Darkness
TEN. Dream-walker
ELEVEN. The Wintering Place
TWELVE. Trade Goods
THIRTEEN. Hoarding
FOURTEEN. The Trading Place
FIFTEEN. The Invitation
SIXTEEN. Kinrove
SEVENTEEN. Treachery
EIGHTEEN. Boxed
NINETEEN. The Summoning
TWENTY. The Warning
TWENTY-ONE. Massacre
TWENTY-TWO. Retreat
TWENTY-THREE. Tidings
TWENTY-FOUR. Resolutions
TWENTY-FIVE. Decisions
TWENTY-SIX. The Dance
TWENTY-SEVEN. The Tree
TWENTY-EIGHT. Emergence
TWENTY-NINE. Dead Man’s Quest
THIRTY. Reunion
THIRTY-ONE. Lives in the Balance
THIRTY-TWO. Decisions and Consequences
THIRTY-THREE. Face to Face
THIRTY-FOUR. Retrospection
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The magic had been growing in me, like a fungus overtaking a piece of fruit, since I was fifteen years old. For several years, it had skulked beneath my awareness. Only when I left home to go to the Academy had I become aware that something strange lurked within me. And only after I’d contracted Speck plague and survived it did the magic begin to change my body so radically. It had cloaked me in the fat that had made me an object of ridicule and disdain and hampered not just my physical life but my military career. Yet in all the years that it had possessed me and changed me, I’d only managed to use it for my own ends a few times. For the most part, it used me.
It had used me to spy on my people, to better understand ‘the intruders’ and how they might be fought. It had used me to spread the Speck plague in our capital city and all through our Cavalla Academy, destroying a whole generation of young officers. It had used me again to know when best to strike in Gettys, so that the entire inspection team of officers and nobles from the West might be wiped out.
