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Beyond a shadow of a doubt, Crocken the peddler had made a bad bargain. He’d lost at love, he’d lost his life savings—he even lost his own shadow!
For the promise of gold and a chance to keep breathing, he’d agreed to conduct the shadow-remnant of a murdered wizard to the distant kingdom of Armyn.
Crocken kept his end of the deal—he braved leagues of trackless wilderness, flooded rivers and savage beasts. He won through to the fortress of Axe-Edge—where he found his term of servitude endlessly extended at his shadow-master’s whim. He found he was mistaken for a hero. He found that doors opened for a hero which would have been slammed in any ordinary peddler’s face. And behind one of those doors waited the wizard’s murderer…
For the promise of gold and a chance to keep breathing, he’d agreed to conduct the shadow-remnant of a murdered wizard to the distant kingdom of Armyn.
Crocken kept his end of the deal—he braved leagues of trackless wilderness, flooded rivers and savage beasts. He won through to the fortress of Axe-Edge—where he found his term of servitude endlessly extended at his shadow-master’s whim. He found he was mistaken for a hero. He found that doors opened for a hero which would have been slammed in any ordinary peddler’s face. And behind one of those doors waited the wizard’s murderer…