Mazonia

COOLING LAKES/STRIP PITS: MAZONIA/BRAIDWOOD: Both '' Bluegill Bill '' Young and Ed McCain report good bluegill at the Mazonia lakes.

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As the expedition traveled across the breadth of Mazonia, Xylina became aware that these two men sought Faro out at every opportunity for long, serious discussions.

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Both of them assumed that Mazonia would be the end of their journey; it was, after all, Ware's home.

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Still-this would be better than being escorted to the edge of Mazonia and left there with only the clothes on her back.

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The problem is that though Mazonite magic works beyond Mazonia, it fades with distance.

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Were the demons controlling affairs, yet allowing the women of Mazonia to think that they were in control?

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The armed guards she sends will be all male slaves, licensed to be armed outside of Mazonia, and as the only female with a Mazonite expedition, she will be the obvious target in an attack.

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The "hoppers" were thumb-sized insects, shaped like the tiny leaf-hoppers of Mazonia, but much larger.

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Faro would have been able to sell his services to those who could not afford their own scribe-slaves, to his fellow freed men, and to the demons who traded with the Mazonites and the freedmen impartially, and who conducted most of the trade that passed the borders of Mazonia.

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The plants had thinned to the point that sunlight reached the ground, and the resultant light allowed other things to flourish among them, things that looked more like the plants and bushes Xylina knew from Mazonia.

If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993