《Storm Warning》作者： - Mercedes Lackey 【EPUB】

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Storm Warning Book One of the Mage Storms by Mercedes Lackey copyright 1994 CONTENTS One. 4Two. 12 Three. 22 Four35 Five. 44 Six. 55 Seven. 68 Eight77 Nine. 94 Ten. 112 Eleven. 128 Twelve. 142 Thirteen. 157 Fourteen. 177 Fifteen. 195 Sixteen. 213 ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? Dedicated to Elsie Wollheim with love and respect ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? One Emperor Charliss sat upon the Iron Throne bowed down neither by the visible weight of hisyears nor the invisible weight of his power. He bore neither the heavy Wolf Crown on his headnor the equally burdensome robes of state across his shoulders though both lay nearby on anornately trimmed marble bench beside the Iron Throne. The thick silk-velvet robes flowed downthe bench and coiled on the floor beside it a lush weight of pure crimson so heavy it took twostrapping young men to lift them into place on the Emperors shoulders. The Wolf Crown lay atopthe robes preventing them from slipping off the bench altogether. Let mere kings flaunt theirgolden crowns the Emperor boasted a circlet of electrum inset with thirteen yellow diamonds.Only when one drew near enough to the Emperor to see his eyes clearly did one see that thecirclet was not as it seemed that what had passed at a distance for an abstract design or afloral pattern was in fact a design of twelve wolves and that the winking yellow diamondswere their eyes. Eleven of those wolves were in profile to the watcher five facing left sixfacing