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    A Thousand Goodbyes
    A Thousand Goodbyes
    A Thousand Goodbyes
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    A Thousand Goodbyes

    By Zahra Owens

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    History is written by the biased victors, leaving only their view intact. Future civilizations are now trying to learn from the past, sending agents Niall and Dafydd to record lost perspectives from destroyed cultures. To achieve this, they keep Dafydd in the dark, and it takes a thousand lifetimes of love and loss before he sees the light.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9781613726488
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      A Thousand Goodbyes - Zahra Owens

      Sol Principalis System—Third Planet

      Local date: 1201

      THE sun streaming down on them and the heat of the midday were a far cry from what Daveth was used to in his native land by the North Sea. He didn’t complain, however, since this was his chance to make a name for himself. He wanted to be a knight and wear the large cross on his tunic like the man he fetched water and food for during the sieges. He had a long way to go, though. He didn’t come from a good family, and if his father had lived, he would have become a blacksmith, like his pa, his brothers, and his grandfather. He had two brothers who took over their father’s smithy when the man died though, and there was no place for Daveth. So when Sir Newell, an English knight, came to his town to scout for pages, Daveth had grabbed the opportunity and followed the man to war in to the Holy Land.

      Daveth wasn’t afraid of hard work or of knights crossing swords in practice. In fact, he’d taken up a sword one day when his knight’s sparring partner had fallen wounded, and that was how he had come to be in his knight’s favor.

      Daveth’s knight was a handsome one, with bright-blue eyes, fair skin, and—whenever he took his helmet off—brown floppy hair. Daveth doted on him and was even given leave to sleep in the knight’s quarters so he could fetch him things if he needed them in the middle of the night. Daveth barely dared to look into his knight’s eyes and only really saw their gemlike quality when they were sparring and both dressed in helmets and armor. He knew he had to be patient, though. Sir Newell was not of very high standing and couldn’t openly be seen being kind to his page, but in the privacy of their tent, Daveth enjoyed the kind words and pats on the shoulder his knight bestowed upon him.

      The journey to the Holy Land was long and arduous, and Daveth didn’t mind walking next to his liege’s horse as they traveled in caravan. When, to his

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