RAYMOND E. FEIST
Into A Dark Realm
Book Two of The Darkwar
Copyright
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are a work of the authors imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely conincidental.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Map
Chapter One: Chase
Chapter Two: Oracle
Chapter Three: Aftermath
Chapter Four: Nighthawks
Chapter Five: Preparation
Chapter Six: Honest Johns
Chapter Seven: Deathknight
Chapter Eight: New Directions
Chapter Nine: Roldem
Chapter Ten: Purging
Chapter Eleven: Delecordia
Chapter Twelve: Enemies
Chapter Thirteen: Change
Chapter Fourteen: Celebration
Chapter Fifteen: The White
Chapter Sixteen: Lord
Chapter Seventeen: Warriors
Chapter Eighteen: Feast
Chapter Nineteen: Kosridi
Chapter Twenty: Crucible
Chapter Twenty-One: Betrayal
Chapter Twenty-Two: Revelations
Keep Reading
Continue the Adventure
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
Map
CHAPTER ONE
Chase
A WOMAN SCREAMED IN OUTRAGE.
Three young men overturned carts and pushed aside shoppers as they crashed through the evening market. Their leader a tall, rawboned youth with red hair pointed to the retreating back of their prey and shouted, There he goes!
Night approached the port city of Durbin as desperate men raced through the streets. Merchants pulled prized wares from tables as three young warriors shoved anyone and anything blocking their pursuit. In their wake they left consternation, curses and threats; all of which they ignored.
The summer heat of the Jal-Pur desert still clung to the walls and cobbles of the city, despite the slight breeze off the sea. Even the harbour gulls were content to stand idly by and watch for any morsel that might fall from a passing vendors cart. The more ambitious among them would launch themselves into the air and soar for a moment or two, hanging languidly on the heat rising from the dock stones, then quickly return to stand quietly near their brethren.
The evening markets were crowded, for most of the inhabitants of Durbin had spent the blistering afternoon resting in the shade. The citys pace was leisurely, for these were the hottest days of summer, and men who lived on the deserts edge knew better than to struggle needlessly against the elements. Things were as the gods willed.
So the sight of three armed and apparently dangerous young men pursuing another, while hardly a remarkable experience in Durbin, was unexpected given the season and the time of day. It was just too hot to be running.