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    Princess
    Princess
    Princess
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    Princess

    By Barbara Hambly

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    A novelette of 12,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Dragonsbane (Winterlands) series. John Aversin, Dragonsbane and Thane of the Winterlands, and his partner the witch Jenny Waynest, are hired by a dragon to rescue a princess. The Princess had originally bargained with the dragon to carry her off (and split her father's treasure) rather than be forced to wed a Prince she didn't like... but demons showed up and the plan went horribly awry. John and Jenny must rescue the Princess, without getting double-crossed (and possibly killed) by the dragon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara Hambly
    Release dateJul 15, 2015
    ISBN9781311211279
    Princess
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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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      Princess - Barbara Hambly

      PRINCESS

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      Published by Barbara Hambly at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Barbara Hambly

      Cover art by Eric Baldwin

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      Table of Contents

      Princess

      About The Author

      The Further Adventures

      PRINCESS

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      John Aversin dismounted well over a mile from the place they said the dragon was laired. There was a cave at the base of a tor, concealed in a stand of stunted birches. The bitter wind smelled of a blizzard. He hoped it wouldn’t hit before he’d finished scouting the ground.

      Will you stay here, he asked Jenny Waynest, or follow?

      Follow. She led her mare in beside Battlehammer, laid a small sunburned hand on the nose of each horse in turn: Stay if you can, flee if you must, return when it’s safe, come at my call. The white mare, the bay war-horse, flicked their ears, shaggy with the coming of their winter coats. They were used to this spell. I’ll keep as much of a Cloak on you as I can.

      Even the strongest wizard – and Jenny was far from that – couldn’t scry a dragon. They were creatures who lived in magic as fish live in water, and the older ones were wise and wary as any mage. Den Strethen, who’d brought the news of this one to the Hold last night, had said it was immense, forty feet or more, but this, John was inclined to doubt.

      There’s no reason a grown drake would come to poor land like this, he’d reasoned, when Strethen had finally dossed down by the banked fire in the Hall among the men of the household, and John and Jenny had gone up to the tower to bed. With winter comin’ on, and most of the herds in fold? It’s got to be a youngster. God knows they all look forty foot long when you see ‘em for the first time.

      The dragon he’d slain years ago – the dragon whose scars he still bore on his body and whose slaying had given him the name Dragonsbane – had been young, twenty-five feet, golden and beautiful as fire and flowers. Its mind had been unformed, cunning as an animal but no more than that.

      John desperately hoped that this one would be the same.

      Wind sliced through his sheepskin coat and the heavy plaids he had wrapped over it, as if they’d been a Southern lady’s gauze nightgown. This part of the Winterlands was good for little besides sheep. Thin moorland and thin heather swept up into the huge brown swells of hills to the east, the black broken end of the Badland to the south. From what Den has said, this dragon – red, he’d described it, with markings of white and black on its sides – had gone to ground in the Groggle, the wastes just north of the Badland where twisting stone ridges of hills alternated with murky sinks of clay and quicksand. Unlike the Badland, where very little grew, the narrow vales of the Groggle were choked with heather and whatever rank grasses would grow on the thin, rocky soil. Wolves lived there, in the caves that riddled the hills like termite-tunnels in rotten wood, and Meewinks as well.

      It was going to be a nasty hunt.

      But it was John’s responsibility, as Thane of the Winterlands, and though these days he could call on the small garrison at Great Toby for assistance he could not in good conscience ask any soldier of it to scout after a dragon. As far as John knew, he was the only man living who had killed a dragon. He and Jenny

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