The Mirror of Her Dreams (111 page)

This time, however, no one was holding onto his foot. He had no way to come back. He was gone completely.

Castellan Lebbick came upon her so suddenly that she would have wailed if she hadn't been in such dismay.

He looked around the room, peered into the glass. Then he put his hands on her arms and ground his fingers into her weak flesh. A ferocious triumph burned in his face.

'Now you've done it, woman,' he said almost cheerfully. 'You've done something so heinous that nobody's going to protect you. You've helped a murderer escape.'

She should have said something to defend herself. A denial would have cost Geraden nothing. He was beyond harm. But she only held her head up and met the Castellan's flagrant gaze as well as she could with her own distress and didn't speak.

'Now,' he said through his teeth, 'you are
mine.'

This is the end of THE MIRROR OF HER DREAMS.

Mordant's Need
will be concluded in the next volume, A MAN RIDES THROUGH.

STEPHEN DONALDSON : MORDANT'S NEED 1 - MIRROR OF HER DREAMS

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