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The Darkling
Band
Jason Henderson
You may purchase a print copy at your local bookstore, or at your favorite online bookstore.
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The Darkling Band
Copyright © 2006 Jason Henderson
Cover Art © 2006 Nicole Cardiff
www.nicolecardiff.com
All rights reserved. Reproduction or utilization of this work in any
form, by any means now known or hereinafter invented, including, but
not limited to, xerography, photocopying and recording, and in any
known storage and retrieval system, is forbidden without permission
from the copyright holder.
ISBN 1-896944-61-2 Electronic Edition
ISBN 1-896944-36-1 Print Edition
Henderson, Jason
The darkling band / Jason Henderson.
Also available in electronic format.
ISBN 1-896944-36-1
I. Title.
PS3558.E485D37 2006
813'.54
C2006-906356-7
Dragon Moon Press
www.dragonmoonpress.com
Visit Jason Henderson at www.jasonhenderson.com
Print edition printed and bound in Canada
You may purchase a print copy at your local bookstore, or at your favorite online bookstore.
To order from Amazon.com click http://www.amazon.com/Darkling-Band-Jason-Henderson/dp/1896944361
 
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The Darkling
Band
Jason Henderson
You may purchase a print copy at your local bookstore, or at your favorite online bookstore.
To order from Amazon.com click http://www.amazon.com/Darkling-Band-Jason-Henderson/dp/1896944361
 
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You may purchase a print copy at your local bookstore, or at your favorite online bookstore.
To order from Amazon.com click http://www.amazon.com/Darkling-Band-Jason-Henderson/dp/1896944361
 
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Prologue
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden
The German Lands
AD 1249
Heinrich and Peter had been gone for an hour, hunting wayward dark elves
with the Order of the Holy Vehm, and Rudolf Hauptmann was getting nervous.
Behind him, his wife was wiping off the wooden plates with a clean cloth.
Rudolph stood at the top of the stairs that led down to his shop, listening to the
kitchen sounds and his own breath. He stepped away from the banister to the
front window and glanced back at Frau Hauptmann. She returned a quick,
nervous look before handing a plate to their youngest daughter, Christa.
“Here,” she said, “put this away, then go with Mary to your room.” Frau
Hauptmann spoke aloud with a forced sound, as if she wanted to whisper.
The dark-haired, pale cherub nodded briskly. As she turned to slide the dish
onto a shelf under the basin, she stopped. “Look, mamma!”
Frau Hauptmann looked down. “What is it now?”
“Heinrich didn’t wear the necklace I made for him.”
“Well, he must have forgotten it.”
“He doesn’t like it,” Christa whined, crushed. “He never wears it.”
“Please!” Rudolf snapped at them both. Christa scurried off in a huff to her
and Mary’s room.
Rudolf touched the shutters and let the window fall open, the silence so
complete that he could hear the greased hinges moving as a cold wind sliced in
from the snow-covered streets. He looked out to a horizon that yawned cold and
grey where the Black Forest clawed at the sky.
A white glow grew in the distance like a vast, ghostly cloud.
A dog howled down the main street. Rudolf nodded, and his wife
soundlessly drew a sword from the hearth. She handed it to him, adding,
“Should I get the old one, too?”
Rudolf watched the still-distant shimmering in the sky, still a distant cloud.
“ Ja , get the other one. And give Hans an axe.”
“But he’s so small.”
“Then find a small axe,” Rudolf replied. Damn Mueller and his
damn Vehm dragging off Heinrich and Peter now. “Hans!” Rudolf
lifted his voice, and his young son emerged from his room, quiet like
the world outside.
“Papa?”
“Go down to the shop. Get an axe you can swing. Come back here with it.”
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You may purchase a print copy at your local bookstore, or at your favorite online bookstore.
To order from Amazon.com click http://www.amazon.com/Darkling-Band-Jason-Henderson/dp/1896944361
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