Lady Warhawk (43 page)

"Do you think so?" She shivered a little at the thought of things, machines, controlling
the Threads, perhaps even wresting magic from her mind's grasp.

"I think when that day comes, we will indeed need Athrar, to awaken and take
Braenlicach in his hands and save us all." Mrillis wrapped his arm around her waist and drew her
against him, so her head rested on his shoulder. "I am weary, and yet I hesitate to lay down and
dream and let the world change around me. Keep careful watch, my dear. When I awaken again,
I fear it will be time to awaken Emmi, and begin her training. The world will need the Lady
Warhawk, brave and ready, with a mind sharper than the brightest blade."

END

Michelle Levigne has been a book addict since kindergarten, starting with Dr. Seuss and
graduating to the
Happy Hollisters
juvenile sleuth series, then an abridged two-volume
set of Rudyard Kipling found in her parents' bookshelf (fell in love with Mowgli and Kim)
before detouring through a flirtation with
Star Trek
in fifth grade (who is better, Trek's
Dr. McCoy or
X-Men
's Dr. McCoy?) before being captured by the
Black
Stallion
like all the other girls in her class. In junior high, she fell captive to Greco-Roman
mythology and found
The Odyssey
after watching an old Kirk Douglas movie on rainy
Sunday afternoon. (And some people still believe her when she says she read it in the original
Greek.) Then in senior high, the addiction took over her life and she became a pusher--she
started
writing
.

The
Zygradon
books, which are original to Uncial Press, have a firm
foundation in the Mary Stewart
Merlin
books (
The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills,
The Last Enchantment)
, which she discovered in college. During a brief flirtation with
fanzine publishing, influenced by a friend who wrote
Fantasy Island
stories (yes, that
long ago!), she wrote a
Fantasy Island
episode where the daughter of King Arthur,
awakened from an enchantment, became Mr. Roarke's ward and came to the island to find
Excalibur. When will the descendant of that story show up in the
Zygradon
books? Be
patient. There's a lot of history to explore and enjoy.

Welcome to the
Zygradon
series, and many thanks to Uncial for inviting me to
join them at the beginning of this adventure.

We're going to have a lot of fun.

To learn about other universes and genres Michelle writes in, visit her Web site:
www.Mlevigne.com.

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