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Sorcerer's Pet [MultiFormat]
eBook by Margaret L. Carter
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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: Involving yourself in a quarrel between two wizards is difficult enough. But taking your younger brother along on the job is guaranteed to complicate things even more.
eBook Publisher: Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, Published: Sword & Sorceress 5, 1988
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2008
20 Reader Ratings:
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [18 KB]
, ePub (EPUB) [36 KB]
, Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [12 KB]
, Portable Document Format (PDF) [163 KB]
, Palm Doc (PDB) [13 KB]
, Microsoft Reader (LIT) [65 KB]
, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [85 KB]
, hiebook (KML) [60 KB]
, Sony Reader (LRF) [46 KB]
, iSilo (PDB) [11 KB]
, Mobipocket (PRC) [14 KB]
, Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [47 KB]
, OEBFF Format (IMP) [22 KB]
Words: 3649
Reading time: 10-14 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Portable Document Format (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
The tall, lean, russet-haired young woman started up from her doze beside the campfire's embers. Her hand flew to her dagger hilt. She scanned the trees from which proceeded the rustling that had roused her. Twilight shadows were slanting through the dark green and purplish leaves. The underbrush near her stirred, and an animal emerged--a shaggy, fanged beast whose gray pelt was splotched with irregular patches the shade of old wine. It carried the carcass of a lopear in its jaws.
The woman relaxes, removing her hand from her belt. "Of all the irresponsible--"
The beast dropped the plump, long-eared animal it carried and swished its tail at her. Its brilliant turquoise eyes held a pleading expression. The animal shape wavered like a reflection on water and dissolved into a column of grayish maroon smoke. It was replaced by the nude body of a boy in his late teens. Sandy-haired and slim, he was as tall as the woman but not filled out to man's bulk. The blue eyes, unchanged, met her violet ones with a mocking gleam. "Thought you might want fresh meat for supper, instead of those tough dried strips."
"Crawling Chaos, Bronn! I doze off for a few minutes, expecting you to keep watch, and you pull a trick like this! I don't know why I brought you."
Grinning, the boy squatted beside his knapsack to pull out his trousers and tunic. "Because even a mighty warrior like you can't pull off a task like this single-handed."
"Oh, shut your face and build up the fire while I get this thing skinned. It should be a tender one, but still not worth wasting a change on. When I tell Mother and Father how you've behaved--"
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