It's a long wait until the Final Battle between Law and Chaos, when all Adepts of the Blue Star are pledged to fight on the side of Law. So what does one do in the intervening centuries? Lythande has to earn a living, after all. Music and magic are saleable skills--sometimes both together. There's a magic lute.... The allure of a mermaid's song... a temperamental music-loving dragon... magical artifacts that will allow no one to turn them from their appointed destinations... an unexpectedly dangerous small child... Lythande's life is full of challenges, of which the biggest is never allowing the Secret that preserves each Adept's power to be revealed, on pain of total loss of magic... oh, and death.
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Contents
- 1The Secret of the Blue Starnovelette
- 2The Incompetent Magiciannovelette
- 3Somebody Else's Magicnovelette
- 4Sea Wracknovelette
- 5The Wandering Lutenovelette
- 6Bitchshort story
- 7The Walker Behindshort story
- 8The Malice of the Demonshort story
- 9Footstepsshort story
- 10The Wuzzlesshort story
- 11The Virgin and the Volcanoshort story
- 12Chalice of Tears, or I Didn't Want That Damned Grail Anywayshort story
- 13To Kill the Undeadshort story
- 14To Drive the Cold Winter Awayshort story
- 15Fools' Fireshort story
- 16Here There Be Dragons?short story
- 17North to Northwandershort story
- 18Goblin Marketshort story
- 19The Gratitude of Kingsnovelette
- 20The Children of Catsshort story
