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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: An old crone is granted audience with Oresto, loyal wizard to the court of King Plasas IV. She gives him a glass orb in which Oresto sees through the left eye of Janan the Clever, who plots to storm the king's castle. Oresto can see Janan's plans, thwart them, and save his liege. But plots spin within plots, and the crone sees more than she tells.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Talebones Magazine #11, 1998
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2005

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Words: 3072
Reading time: 8-12 min.
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That the crone sought audience with the wizard Oresto and not with King Plasas the Fourth caught the clerk's attention.

"With Oresto she wishes to speak?" The clerk, a short man with a large round stomach and a well-oiled and braided beard pinned his underling with a hard eye.

"Y-yes, your Excellency."

The clerk snorted. "I'm sure you got it wrong." He stood from behind his cluttered desk. "I suppose I'll have to look into this myself."

She waited in the hall outside the appointment room. Tradesmen, merchants, goodwives, and other commoners waited their turn in a queue at the window of a closet where a scribe recorded the nature of their petitions. The clerk marked each appointment time on a large wall calendar. Each person in the queue, which extended beyond the hall into the courtyard where the wind dipped cold fingers, waited with degrees of dignity ranging from stoic grace to near apoplectic irritation.