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Sorceress of the Gulls [MultiFormat]
eBook by Dave Smeds
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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: Kari had a magician's talent, but she never seemed to do well enough in her studies to please her father. Would she ever find her own form of magic?
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Sword and Sorceress V, 1988
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2006
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [326 KB], eReader (PDB) [55 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [30 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [27 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [107 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [101 KB], hiebook (KML) [145 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [147 KB], iSilo (PDB) [24 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [31 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [111 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [42 KB]
Words: 8679
Reading time: 24-34 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Gan found the baby lying in the snow where her mother had left her.
Swaddled in a single thin cloth, the infant wailed and shivered, startling the jackdaws in the heavily weighted pines above. Snow from the birds' departure settled down on her tiny face, white traces that melted instantly, running off her cheeks like tears.
Gan scooped the child up and nestled her awkwardly against his body, unsure just how to hold her. Newborn. Two or three days old. A little blue in the lips and the tip of the nose, but not so cold that she had been harmed. Placing his back to the wind, he hurriedly unwrapped her, examined her, and covered her again. No deformations. A fine, healthy child. Cast off, then, simply because she had the witchglow.
The baby's cries stilled as Gan held her close. A nimbus of energy hovered in the air around her small body, a pale lavender radiance almost invisible in the daylight. She exuded magic as conspicuously as the geysers of the nearby hills vented clouds of steam into the crisp winter air. The wizard could not help but rouse from his den, even on such an inclement day as this, and seek out the source of that power.
No death so young for this one, Gan vowed. Such talent was not to be squandered. If her true mother did not want her, he would find her another, or become one himself.
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The young widow jumped at the sudden knock on her door. Her nine-month-old son lost his clasp on her skirts and sat down abruptly, much to his surprise.
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