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    A Hole In Her Mind
    A Hole In Her Mind
    A Hole In Her Mind
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    A Hole In Her Mind

    By R. J. Davnall

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    Rel and Dora's journey to Vessit is interrupted by a near-mythic Child of the Wild, thought long-extinct. If they're going to survive, Rel will have to trust the shady Gift-Giver, Taslin, but Taslin's plan involves hiding inside an unexplored portal to the Second Realm...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. J. Davnall
    Release dateFeb 21, 2012
    ISBN9781465913593
    A Hole In Her Mind
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    R. J. Davnall

    R. J. Davnall is a brightly-plumed, semi-nocturnal cryptid native to northwestern England. She has been making up stories, including her own, all her life, and thus probably shouldn't be trusted to write her own bio. When disguised as a human, she is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Game Design Studies, and a member of the Olaf Stapledon Centre for Speculative Futures, at the University of Liverpool

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      A Hole In Her Mind - R. J. Davnall

      A Hole In Her Mind

      Episode 3 of Van Raighan's Last Stand

      A Story of the Second Realm

      By R.J. Davnall

      Published by R. J. Davnall at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 R. J. Davnall

      Smashwords Edition License Notes:

      This ebook may be copied, distributed, reposted, reprinted and shared, provided it appears in its entirety without alteration, and the reader is not charged to access it.

      The Second Realm

      1-1: I Can See Clearly Now

      1-2: You Can't Go Home Again

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      Contents

      A Hole In Her Mind

      About the Author

      Van Raighan’s Last Stand

      3. A Hole In Her Mind

      Somehow, the fabric of Taslin's close-fitting dress picked up the firelight in just such a way as to mesmerise Rel. The Gift-Giver sat at Dora's back, stroking her hair smooth and glossy using some power of the Second Realm Rel had never seen. Next to Taslin's graceful curves, no amount of hair-care could save Dora from looking scrawny and boyish. It wasn't fair, Rel reflected, to be travelling with such a beautiful lady who might also be a deadly enemy - certainly was deadly dangerous - while the only human woman around was so plain.

      Wind whispered over the stones of the old croft-house's wall above them. The building was ancient, an abandoned ruin even before the Realmcrash, its roof long since gone. If it rained in the night, they'd all get wet, but it had been a dry day, the cloud lifting as the sun set, and a cold night promised. Wet blankets would be unpleasant, but the wind had a raw edge that spoke in long sibilance of exposure and hypothermia.

      The shelter of the ruined croft meant a fire that wouldn't blow out, even if its plume of smoke vanished into the purple of the late-sunset horizon at an alarming angle. If the floor was hard, it was far from the worst they'd slept on in four days' travel. Rel stretched his legs, working sore feet in his boots and wishing it wasn't too cold to sleep barefoot.

      To Taslin, Dora was saying, Not the sort of use you expected to put your training to, I suppose? She smiled, broadly and simply, a smile that would have been unthinkable even a week ago; being away from Federas, or perhaps no longer having the responsibilities of a Four Knot, had changed Dora. Unless this was

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