A Night With the Girls
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Sequel to the Sun Wolf and Starhawk series. While her wizard partner Sun Wolf is away, warrior woman Starhawk gets a message from the band of mercenaries which Sun Wolf used to lead, and to which Starhawk once belonged. The mercenaries are beseiging a city, and are being attacked by a creature they’re pretty sure is magic - despite the fact that nearly every wizard in the world was killed a century ago. Sun Wolf, born with the powers of a wizard, doesn’t know how to use them; Starhawk is torn between finding a wizard to instruct him, and saving the lives of her former friends.
Barbara Hambly
Since her first published fantasy in 1982 - The Time of the Dark - Barbara Hambly has touched most of the bases in genre fiction. She has written mysteries, horror, mainstream historicals, graphic novels, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, romances, and Saturday Morning Cartoons. Born and raised in Southern California, she attended the University of California, Riverside, and spent one year at the University of Bordeaux, France. She married science fiction author George Alec Effinger, and lived part-time in New Orleans for a number of years. In her work as a novelist, she currently concentrates on horror (the Don Simon Ysidro vampire series) and historical whodunnits, the well-reviewed Benjamin January novels, though she has also written another historical whodunnit series under the name of Barbara Hamilton.Professor Hambly also teaches History part-time, paints, dances, and trains in martial arts. Follow her on Facebook, and on her blog at livejournal.com.Now a widow, she shares a house in Los Angeles with several small carnivores.
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A Night With the Girls - Barbara Hambly
A NIGHT WITH THE GIRLS
Barbara Hambly
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Copyright 1998 Barbara Hambly
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Table of Contents
A Night With The Girls
About The Author
The Further Adventures
A NIGHT WITH THE GIRLS
Barbara Hambly
What’s the problem?
Starhawk of Wrynde swung down from her horse in front of Butchers infirmary tent. Though she hadn’t been in a mercenary camp in almost two years, she had a soul-deep sense of familiarity about the place, like the outhouse behind a familiar tavern: Are we back here again? Only the outhouse would have been quieter. Past the walls of Horran, the sun dipped toward the Inner Sea, red behind the squat black towers of siege engines. In front of tents the mercs sharpened swords and polished armor, repaired straps, chatted up the camp whores, or diced. Cook-fire smoke gritted in the eyes, profanity in the ears.
Be it ever so humble…
Butcher craned to look past Starhawk’s shoulder. Where’s the Wolf?
And I’m so glad to see you, too,
replied Starhawk.
The troop physician laughed, embarrassed. I’m sorry.
She made a show of checking her breeches pockets and the leathern purse at her belt. I must have left my manners in my other clothes. I’m damn glad to see you, Hawk, but I meant it in my letter when I said we needed Sun Wolf here.
Sun Wolf’s in the mountains, chasing down some woman who’s supposed to be teaching magic.
Starhawk ran the horse’s reins through the ropes that wrapped one of the barrels piled outside the hospital tent, and pulled down her saddlebags. Don’t tell me you’ve got another wizard in the city.
Two years ago the troop, of which Starhawk had once been second in command, had the misfortune to have a curse placed on it during a siege. The results had not been pleasant for anyone.
Butcher scratched her short-cropped graying hair, and led the way into the tent. Inside, her two apprentices were closing the flaps and lighting lamps. A slave came past with dishes of porridge on a tray. A couple of mercs from one of the smaller troops, as well