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    Whisper

    By Barbara Hambly

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    A novelette of 14,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Darwath series. The teleporter is due to open between the Keep of Dare and an unknown Keep, lost for three thousand years - and Archmage Ingold Inglorion is snowed in fifty miles away and unable to be there to deal with whatever might be on the other side of that teleporter. California warrior-woman Gil Patterson, and California mage-in-training Rudy Solis, have to explore the unknown Keep on their own: to interpret its secrets, to prevent whatever might lurk there from following them back to the last Keep of humankind... and to destroy it when, in spite of their efforts, it does.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara Hambly
    Release dateJul 17, 2015
    ISBN9781311016690
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    Barbara Hambly

    Since her first published fantasy in 1982 - The Time of the Dark - Barbara Hambly has touched most of the bases in genre fiction. She has written mysteries, horror, mainstream historicals, graphic novels, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, romances, and Saturday Morning Cartoons. Born and raised in Southern California, she attended the University of California, Riverside, and spent one year at the University of Bordeaux, France. She married science fiction author George Alec Effinger, and lived part-time in New Orleans for a number of years. In her work as a novelist, she currently concentrates on horror (the Don Simon Ysidro vampire series) and historical whodunnits, the well-reviewed Benjamin January novels, though she has also written another historical whodunnit series under the name of Barbara Hamilton.Professor Hambly also teaches History part-time, paints, dances, and trains in martial arts. Follow her on Facebook, and on her blog at livejournal.com.Now a widow, she shares a house in Los Angeles with several small carnivores.

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      Whisper - Barbara Hambly

      WHISPER

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      Published by Barbara Hambly at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Barbara Hambly

      Cover art by Eric Baldwin

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      Whisper

      About The Author

      The Further Adventures

      WHISPER

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      So what should we do? Rudy Solis bent over the pale-blue shard of crystal that he held cupped in his palms, to shut out the wan light of glowstones, the ochre gleam of the hearth, in the main Guard-room beyond the open door.

      Gil Patterson, sitting on the end of the bed, watched his face intently, as if in his dark-blue eyes she could read what he saw. As if – if she listened hard – she could hear what he heard.

      Which of course she couldn’t.

      She sometimes wondered if Rudy only thought he saw Ingold Inglorion’s face in the scrying-crystal, while he heard the old man’s deep voice – and the howling of the blizzard winds outside the cave where Ingold had been snowed in for three days – in his mind.

      But Ilae and Wend, the Keep’s two other novice mages, crowded to peer over Rudy’s shoulders, and by their faces in the flickering light she could see that they, too, saw and heard.

      Rudy said, Every frakkin’ night, man! in a tone that led Gil to deduce that Ingold – the master wizard of the Keep and for all anyone knew the master wizard of the entire winter-bound world – had asked the obvious question, Have you tried scrying through the Transporter? He went on, If the thing’s gonna open when the moon hits zenith tomorrow night – which should be about two hours after midnight – and could close up as early as sunrise, that’s about four hours. We can go in, at least check out what’s on the other side—

      He broke off. Gil might not be mageborn, but she knew her elderly beloved well enough to almost hear him saying, —And get yourselves killed for your trouble!

      She had to admit Ingold Inglorion had a point.

      Ingold – and the other senior mage he’d communicated with via scrying-crystal, Thoth the Serpentmage in the old Keep of Black Rock in the deeps of the Gettlesand desert – had for nearly a year been trying to work out how to target the Transporter that had been discovered last summer, hidden deep in the heart of Dare’s Keep.

      That it communicated with similar chambers in other Keeps they knew. That its destination could be changed they also knew: Ingold had done so to the transporter in the now-demolished Keep of Shadow, Tiyomis under the Ice in the North.* But the spells that had worked in Tiyomis Keep did nothing in Dare’s, and the transporter vestibule in Dare’s Keep bore little resemblance to the one in the Keep of Shadow. No book Ingold had ever seen – and those in the library of the City of Wizards had been copied and re-copied back for nearly two thousand years – had even mentioned that the Keeps had had transporters, so the technology for them must have been lost fairly soon after the first rising of the Dark, three millennia ago.

      Yet one more piece of knowledge, Gil reflected drily, to add to a category that would easily fill the UCLA library with enough left over to pack that institution’s gym to the ceiling. How many other Keeps there had been, where they had stood, how they had survived the centuries when the Dark Ones had roamed the nights at large – all this information had been lost in the centuries of panic and ignorance, as well as any information about what had happened to the inhabitants of any of those other Keeps. The second rising of the Dark, six years ago, had been accompanied by the almost-wholesale destruction of trained wizards in the west of the world, and their departure had been followed hard by glacial cold, über-hurricane ice-storms, and the coming of a new Age of Ice.

      Whatever was going to be at the other end of that transporter when

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