Zalazar

EARTH SHADE woke in Zalazar the memory of ocean waterspouts.

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Zalazar stepped back, gasping; he looked to see THE MAGIC MAY HETURN that Bormanus, who had kept clear, was safe.

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In his youth, Zalazar had seen balloons, as well as magic and parade grounds.

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The dragons guarding the gate stretched out ther necks when Zalazar came near; fangs like buncheu knives drove at him.

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It was tilted almost on edge, and it was half sunken into the valley on the mountain's far side, so that the place where Zalazar stood was just about on a horizontal level with the enormous dish's center.

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The whole globe of Earth was already so far below that Zalazar could now begin to see its roundness, and still the

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Looking down without breaking stride, Zalazar beheld small creatures that had once been living, then petrified into the mountain's fabric by the slow failure of the world's mana, now stirring with gropings. back toward life.

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The front of the cloudship divided and opened a way for the man who had been the old herdsman Zalazar.

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Zalazar knew that he must still go forward, now into Cloudholm itself.

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For now, from his newly gained advantage upon the western rim of the new tabletop, Zalazar could see

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