CHAPTER 1 Approximately: 2 Pages	It was a few days past Wintermark on a short, dim afternoon. The air smelled of snow, and a young man from the village, the baker's nephew, . . .
CHAPTER 2 Approximately: 4 Pages	Many days travel to the south, a king was sitting on the ground with his back against a tree. It's true that he didn't look much like a king. . . .
CHAPTER 3 Approximately: 7 Pages	It was dusk when Ware finished cutting up the fallen tree, and snowflakes were flying among the chips of wood. He set aside as many . . .
CHAPTER 4 Approximately: 9 Pages	The kitchen glowed with sun. The fire was leaping and making the ovens hot, and everywhere the yeast was working. . . .
CHAPTER 5 Approximately: 8 Pages	Ware knew exactly where they should go — to a spot he'd found by accident several years before. . . .
CHAPTER 6 Approximately: 4 Pages	The brawny sergeant of the guard peered into the dim hallway. "Why have they let the torches go out," he muttered, "This place is dark as the . . .
CHAPTER 7 Approximately: 5 Pages	When Ware awoke, the chill night was gone, and the air was bright and vaporous. It promised to be one of those gilded winter days that . . .
CHAPTER 8 Approximately: 5 Pages	The throne room burned with light. Fires roared on every hearth, the marble walls were hung with red silk, and every corner was ablaze with . . .
CHAPTER 9 Approximately: 15 Pages	At first it was merely less dark, and Ware wondered if it was only that his eyes were longing for the day. But then the tree-trunks became an . . .
CHAPTER 10 Approximately: 11 Pages	When Ware opened his eyes again it was dark. He could see that Hearth was cooking something over a small fire, and Hasty was hovering around . . .
CHAPTER 11 Approximately: 8 Pages	Through the sleety night, they moved past town after town. At dawn, just as the rain stopped, Zex called a halt. "Time to rest." . . .
CHAPTER 12 Approximately: 6 Pages	King Dur was dreaming of killing a falcon. First he caught it and broke its wings. Then he stared at it long and hard, hoping to see tears in . . .
CHAPTER 13 Approximately: 16 Pages	At dusk they entered a densely wooded area. . . .
CHAPTER 14 Approximately: 7 Pages	She's within your reach. How DARE you keep me waiting! Dur's voice thundered inside Arm's aching head, making his stomach tremble and his . . .
CHAPTER 15 Approximately: 7 Pages	They had reached a region of small farms with orchards just coming into flower. The nights were warmer now and the air smelled of spring. A . . .
CHAPTER 16 Approximately: 2 Pages	Arm was jolted out of sleep by a sword-thrust of thought: "She's reached the river; I'll crush your bones to paste if she slips away now! . . .
CHAPTER 17 Approximately: 11 Pages	The little company parted on the road to Canal Port. Hearth went into the town with Ember, while Ware and Steel headed south with Zex, Hasty, . . .
CHAPTER 18 Approximately: 9 Pages	As spring rises, the sky stays light long after the sun has set. And through this diffused, pearly twilight, the small party of travelers . . .
CHAPTER 19 Approximately: 5 Pages	King Dur's anger was terrible. . . .
CHAPTER 20 Approximately: 11 Pages	The room was swimming with a pale light that had no source Ware could later recall. Nor could he recollect any object in the room, for he . . .
CHAPTER 21 Approximately: 5 Pages	The barge passed Kingsport just before dawn. Wrapped in Ess-Issa's enchanted sleep, they slipped untouched through the net that King Dur . . .
CHAPTER 22 Approximately: 9 Pages	They trudged through a long evening across meadows of dry grass. The wind was always in their faces, steady and insistent. It covered the . . .

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