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    Zenobie

    By Barbara Hambly

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    Sequel to the Windrose series. Computer programmer Joanna Sheraton’s hippie mother asks the help of her daughter’s partner - exiled wizard Antryg Windrose - in getting rid of a spectre which seems to be haunting the New Age Consciousness-Raising Center in Bayou Chien Mort, Louisiana. Upon arrival, Antryg and Joanna begin to suspect that there is a lot more going on than anyone is willing to admit, with results potentially more deadly than noises in the night and a little blood on the walls.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara Hambly
    Release dateJun 28, 2015
    ISBN9781310178436
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    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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      Zenobie - Barbara Hambly

      ZÉNOBIE

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 Barbara Hambly

      Cover art by Eric Baldwin

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      Table of Contents

      Zénobie

      About The Author

      The Further Adventures

      ZÉNOBIE

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      And what do you do? asked Joanna’s mother, when the waiter had jotted their order and departed into the bright-lit clamor of Jerry’s Famous Delicatessen on Ventura Boulevard. Oh, look, dearest, she added, with a gasp of delight, "there’s Larry Hagman! Do you really think they’re going to kill off Pamela Ewing? In Dallas, she explained breathlessly, to Joanna’s look of blank enquiry, and frowned in the direction of the actor. They always look so much smaller in real life. Do you think it’s true that he smokes marijuana? And what do you do?"

      Her attention returned to Antryg, whose hand Joanna had squeezed, to prevent him from asking who was murdering whom in the Texas capital and why such a deed would not be forestalled if everybody seemed to know about it beforehand. She gave him a glance that said, I’ll explain later, though it would be difficult, Joanna guessed, to explain the long-running so-called drama to anyone, much less why anyone would watch it for ten years.

      Antryg propped his round-lensed spectacles more firmly onto his beaky nose, and replied, Well, I tend bar four nights a week at Enyart’s – although the reasoning behind some of the beverage nomenclature escapes me – and on weekends I read tarot cards at Madame Pittman’s on Saticoy Boulevard. I’m afraid I’m not nearly as accurate at it as I am in my own universe, he added, as if worried that the mother of his partner might question his prognostications. Magic doesn’t operate in this world, so the energies don’t align properly – in my own universe I’m a wizard, you know.

      Joanna lowered her forehead to her knuckles, and sighed. At least he didn’t go into the fact that he’s the Archmage of the Council of Wizards…

      "I’m in exile – well, in hiding, really – and there aren’t a great many jobs that a wizard can do in a universe where magic doesn’t exist. I do pay my share of the bills, but it’s extremely difficult to get a credit card."

      Do you know— Starshine Worlds-Daughter (whose name had been Susan Sheraton twenty-seven years previously when she had birthed Joanna into the world) leaned across the table and laid one extensively-manicured hand on the wizard’s wrist, "—when I was taken through Past-life Regression Visualization Training I learned that I was a White Witch during the Dark Ages, which explains why I have this strong spiritual connection to the energies of the Universe. I always travel with my incense kit and vials of pure Heaven-Water – rain or glacier melt from snow-caps. She dug them from her purse to display. Iceland or Thibet are the best, but my blood-type will work well with Antarctic water also. Our Teacher – he’s really an ancient Indian guru named Lal Siva, but he channels through Dr. Conyer – says the Tarot is a manifestation of Cosmic Inter-Connectedness, but he also says my aura is one of the most brilliant he has ever seen. It’s mostly green, you kow, with traces of yellow – or was it blue? A few months ago I did a reading for Melinda Moonwillow – You remember Lindy Sorenson, darling? She and I are Water-Sisters now…"

      The sixties, reflected Joanna resignedly, had hit her mother hard. Now – 1988 – she still sported the beaded headband, Indian-braids, and embroidered Cossak-shirt (worn as a mini-dress: Joanna would have bet her next three checks from computer consulting that she hadn’t done that embroidery herself) popularized during the last third of that eventful decade. Next to Antryg’s graying curls, Jefferson Starship t-shirt, gaudy love-beads and rhinestone earrings, they looked like two refugees from a time-warp.

      Except of course, Antryg Windrose really was an exiled wizard from another universe.

      And the Archmage of the Council of Wizards.

      It was usually easier to let everyone think he was crazy.

      He listened with fascinated absorbtion to Starshine Worlds-Daughter’s scattershot monologue about meditation under a fig tree in the botanical garden at the University of Arizona campus near her current home ("Our Teacher says it HAS to be an actual fig-tree because its inner vibration is so much more valid…) and how it had improved her intuitive understanding of her dreams (I’ve kept a journal of them since I was in my twenties…" Joanna well remembered making her own school lunch, at the age of seven, combing her own hair and letting herself out to go to school, because her mother would spend several hours every morning reading her dream-journal entries

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