Crown of Shadows (73 page)
Authors: C. S. Friedman
If the Hunter
had
made a bid for life (he reasoned), and if he
had
talked Andrys Tarrant into going along with it ... if he
had
sacrificed himself in the way this youth suggested, and done so successfully, so that he now walked the earth as another man, no longer a sorcerer because the Patriarch’s sacrifice had stripped them all of power ... then that man, if he happened to get dirty now, would have to take a bath to get himself clean. Just like everybody else.
had
made a bid for life (he reasoned), and if he
had
talked Andrys Tarrant into going along with it ... if he
had
sacrificed himself in the way this youth suggested, and done so successfully, so that he now walked the earth as another man, no longer a sorcerer because the Patriarch’s sacrifice had stripped them all of power ... then that man, if he happened to get dirty now, would have to take a bath to get himself clean. Just like everybody else.
In the dawn of a new world, Damien Vryce smiled.
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