Notes
A Spellsinger short story.

The text can be found on pages 167-210.

Reprinted in Exceptions to Reality (2008, ADF Collection).

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 2004 Baen paperback edition, ISBN 1416509275. Cover illustration by Jeff Easley.

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