Graynelore
STEPHEN MOORE
HarperVoyager
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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2015
Copyright © Stephen Moore 2015
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For Carol
‘Whenever you think I’m lost, and you cannot find me, look here. I am always here.’
If every man’s life has the makings of a story, the comings and the goings and the things in-between, where does my story truly begin?
For want of a narrator, for want of a name and the soul it belongs to, I fear, it must begin here…
[From: A Beggar Bard’s Tale. Anon.]
Contents
Part One: The Beggar Bard’s Tale
Chapter Two: How the World was Made
Chapter Three: The Beggar Bard’s Burden
Chapter Four: At the Mark of the Wishards
Chapter Five: The Elfwych Riding
Chapter Six: The Killing Field
Chapter Seven: The Unspoken Voice
Chapter Eight: The Broken Tower
Chapter Ten: Against the Grayne
Chapter Twelve: Wycken-on-the-Mire
Chapter Fourteen: Joining the Dance
Chapter Fifteen: The Secret Meet
Chapter Sixteen: The Changelings
Chapter Seventeen: A Brief and Intimate Respite
Chapter Eighteen: Upon the Threshold and a Dream