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    Elsewhere

    By Barbara Hambly

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    A novelette of 15,000 words, sequel to Hambly’s Darwath series. The builders of the ancient Keep of Dare communicated with other Keeps via a transporter – whose instruction manual unfortunately did not survive the centuries. Thus, Archmage Ingold Inglorion – the only trained wizard in the Keep – and his warrior-woman partner Gil Patterson of California find themselves in what they suspect is an unknown world, with no idea how to return home, while an army of deadly ghosts starts to appear within the Keep itself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara Hambly
    Release dateApr 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370678877
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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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      Elsewhere - Barbara Hambly

      ELSEWHERE

      By

      Barbara Hambly

      Published by Barbara Hambly at Smashwords

      Copyright 2017 Barbara Hambly

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      You WHAT? Rudy Solis, student mage and – up until an hour ago, according to what his fellow (and junior) student mage Tarpaeis had just informed him – second wizard of the Keep of Dare, stared at Tarpaeis in a horrified mixture of shock, panic, and the overwhelming desire to brain the junior student with his staff.

      ’Twas only for the fourth part of an hour, pleaded the young man miserably. We thought no harm would come of it—

      You thought no harm would come of it, fumed Rudy, "if you sent away guards who’d been specifically detailed to stand in front of the doors of the transporter chamber, to make sure no one went in there while those sigils, whatever the hell they are, were glowing on its walls—"

      It doesn’t matter what Tarpaeis did. Lady Sketh thrust the hapless culprit aside. A regal woman of the old aristocracy of the Realm of Darwath, she had – when the remnant of humankind had fled before the depredations of the Dark Ones at their terrible rising eight years previously – guaranteed House Sketh its accustomed position of prominence by packing in her wagons foodstuffs, seed-wheat, chickens, iron, salt, and numerous other commodities which she had guessed would be in desperately short supply. It was also said in the Keep that she’d packed her entire wardrobe as well. Certainly her tall headdress and figured velvet gown were ten times more imposing than the plain white frock worn by Minalde, the Lady of the Keep, who sat quietly at the end of the table in the cell set apart as a conference-chamber in the tangle of training-rooms, barracks and store-rooms that comprised the enclave of the Keep Guards. Here Lady Sketh, surrounded by her train of her own warriors, her steward, and Tarpaeis himself, had located Rudy that bitter morning when the tenth blizzard since the autumn equinox scoured the black walls of the Keep.

      The fact remains that my husband – the Heir Presumptive of this Keep and this Kingdom, I might remind you – is in mortal peril…

      The fact remains— Rudy’s voice was now dangerously level, "—that your husband has managed to rob the Keep of its only trained wizard, at a time when, for all we know, we might all be in mortal peril…"

      Nonsense! retorted the Lady. The sigils that appeared in the Chamber of the Door had nothing to do with the room becoming active.

      And we’re not all in mortal peril, added Tarpaeis. Up until a few months ago Rudy had known the youth – who had just turned eighteen – merely as the youngest of Lord Sketh’s private company of guards, who would occasionally come and train with the Keep Guards to improve his swordsmanship. Since the spring, however, Tarpaeis had been Rudy’s fellow-pupil in the secrets of wizardry, under the instruction of Ingold Inglorion, greatest of the few surviving wizards in the West of the World…

      Who had, evidently, been in the transporter room – the Chamber of the Door – with the vanished Lord Sketh when that chamber had activated.

      Rudy guessed his fellow-Californian Gil Patterson had been with them as well. He could imagine no other reason why the former historian wasn’t in the conference-room at that moment, demanding Tarpaeis’ head.

      And how do you know, Lady Sketh, he asked quietly, what activated the transporter – uh – the Chamber of the Door?

      She drew herself up, pendulous cheeks blotching red, and Minalde said, Let us take this from the beginning.

      There is nothing to take, proclaimed the Lady. Owing to an understandable wish on the part of my poor husband to verify a theory he had concerning these absurd rumors of a ‘haunting’ in the back portion of the Fourth Level—

      Minalde lifted her hand. A slender young woman of average height, the Lady of the Keep was not someone people noticed in a crowd. Widow of the last King of Darwath, Regent for his eight-year-old son, she was still very like the girl Rudy had met – and fallen passionately in love with – upon his

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