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    The Fennigsan's Challenge
    The Fennigsan's Challenge
    The Fennigsan's Challenge
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    The Fennigsan's Challenge

    By Stefon Mears

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    Lloxup awakens amid mud and driving rain. Robbed and left for dead. Yet another failure, in the life of a noble's fourth son.

    But that stone shaped like a giant wing. The first sign of the Fennigsan, the legendary Dark Lady of the Woods. Her power could change his life, if he can pass her challenge.

    But failure means death.

    The Fennigsan's Challenge, a high fantasy fairy tale short story of magic and wonder. From Stefon Mears, author of Half a Wizard, Twice Against the Dragon and With a Broken Sword.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThousand Faces Publishing
    Release dateApr 15, 2017
    ISBN9781386311850
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      Lloxup awoke to the feel of rain on his face. Hard, driving rain that worked quickly to freshen the mud of the roadway around him. The back of his skull keened pain through his jaw and down his spine. Hard to tell exactly where the bandits had struck him.

      Bandits Lloxup had hired, thinking they were mercenaries who would guard his wagon. But then, Lloxup reflected as he lay there refusing to open his eyes, stealing those spices no doubt paid better than guarding them.

      Lloxup forced himself to sit up, slanting his world left in a hard spin that left him on his hands, breathing fast and shallow, sweat mixing with the rain on his scalp. But he refused to vomit. Lloxup had no way of knowing when he would next eat, and he could not risk surrendering anything more than he had already lost.

      Bad enough he had failed yet again, ruined another attempt at a career as much as he had ruined the clothes on his back in the rain and mud. He would not add regurgitation to the list of indignities.

      He would not.

      He could already hear his father, Duke Szedo of Lliost Reach, admonishing him not to compound his error any further. But that was life for the fourth son of the Duke. The eldest would

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