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    The Oten's Eye: A Tale of Zeheryfel
    The Oten's Eye: A Tale of Zeheryfel
    The Oten's Eye: A Tale of Zeheryfel
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    The Oten's Eye: A Tale of Zeheryfel

    By A. L. Peevey

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    The orphan, Timur, likes Daisy who grows roses with the power to heal. Her grandmother, Judit, reputedly an evil witch, lies in bed in an endless sleep, missing pieces of her heart, stolen by a rival sorceress. Now, the sorceress has returned to steal the rest of Judit's heart and the fabled oten's eye, a jewel possessed of benevolent power. Can Daisy, with the help of Timur and a werewolf with an odd secret stop the sorceress and awaken her grandmother again?

    If you love adventures involving magic spells and magical devices, werewolves, witches, ordinary heroes, scary castles, and fanciful flights above snowy woods, you'll love The Oten's Eye!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA. L. Peevey
    Release dateSep 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301908882
    The Oten's Eye: A Tale of Zeheryfel
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    A. L. Peevey

    A.L. Peevey has been writing stories since the third grade. Mrinta Quest is his first published book and is a collaboration with his son, Sam, who drew the cover as well as the other illustrations in the book.In 2013, he published Sweet Halo-Dreams and Other Tales of Magic and Peril, a series of short stories set on distant worlds called the Fades. He also published a novelette, The Oten's Eye, which takes place in the same fabled world as Mrinta Quest.In March, 2015, he published Mrinta's Curse, a sequel to Mrinta Quest, recounting the further adventures of Erki of the Oldenburg.A.L. Peevey teaches English to American and international students at Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix, Arizona.

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      The Oten's Eye - A. L. Peevey

      The Oten’s Eye

      A Tale of Zeheryfel

      By A. L. Peevey

      Logo by Sam Peevey

      Text Copyright © by A. L. Peevey, 2013

      Logo Copyright © by Sam Peevey, 2012

      All rights reserved.

      Published at Smashwords

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Books by A.L. Peevey

      Mrinta Quest: A Tale of Zeheryfel

      Sweet Halo-Dreams and Other Tales of Peril and Magic

      The Oten’s Eye: A Tale of Zeheryfel

      Mrinta’s Curse: A Tale of Zeheryfel

      Coming Soon:

      The Frowning Sorceress and More Tales of Peril and Magic

      DarkDoor Manor: The Mystery of Darling Dair

      Dedication:

      For Bruce,

      a friend of long ago

      who may never know

      Table of Contents

      prologue

      i: Timur caught

      ii: the beast in the hedge

      iii: the sorceress’ shadow

      iv: the arming of Timur

      v: the werewolf’s tale

      vi: to the Bitter Hold

      vii: the bitter night

      viii: falling

      ix: chasing shadows

      x: dueling

      xi: a bitter rose

      epilogue

      About the Author

      prologue

      When Timur sees the girl, with a gleaming glass bauble on a chain around her neck, selling roses in the market of Ringgreen Town, at the foot of the Isle Hills, he wants to know her name. He is too shy to ask, though she must be around his age, eight or nine. His father is hurrying him along anyway, like a dog minding a stray calf.

      Come, Timur! No dawdling. We’ve got to be back home before sunset.

      Timur knows his father is worried about the wolf that has lately come hunting their goats. He manages to catch the eye of the girl, who smiles sweetly at him, before his father rushes him up the street. Awful things happen soon after that day in town, and Timur’s parents die. Seven years pass…

      i: Timur caught

      Daisy clipped roses from her grandmother’s gardens and sold them in bouquets of mixed colors in Ringgreen Town market and made much silver. Part of her magical reputation came from the roses, blooming in every season, even when the leaves of autumn lay on the ground, heavy and sodden from rain. The roses had curative value and had purportedly healed those ill from typical sickness, not from magical curses.

      On a bright copper-lit day of autumn, Daisy sold the last of her roses by early afternoon. So, she gathered up the empty baskets she had carried full to the market, left her stall in the square, and made her way home to Rose House. Daisy lived there with her ailing, bed-ridden grandmother, Judit, who was a witch. But, so was Daisy, according to the old women and children of the town. Judit had practiced dark majik, so it was said, until she was cursed by a sorceress more evil than she. Daisy, on the other hand, practiced good majik. All of this talk of majik was mostly hearsay, spread by the usual gossips who had nothing better to do.

      A little later, Timur came by Daisy’s stall. Now alone, he walked about town, plying his trade from a wheel-barrow. He sold week-old loaves and bruised fruit to whomever would buy, usually the wretchedly poor of the town. Like as not, he’d give his wares away, for he was a tenderhearted one, and often his customers had no coin nor even much hope of such.

      When Timur could, he would buy a rose or two from Daisy, to give to some maiden who’d caught his eye for a day or two. Truth to tell, he was sweeter on Daisy and often would

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