With his kin, he sets off to seek for her. If she still exists, might her power help to bring him down?īennek is determined to find out. History teaches that the Snow Chanter was an enemy of Siddél.
The three youths must find the Snow Chanter-an ancestral spirit that they had thought long gone from the world. One morning, in the cold blue hour before sunrise, an owl spirit visits, urging Bennek, along with his brother and cousin, to take on a perilous quest. They hunt all creatures, while craving human flesh above all else.īennek is a young warrior, skilled at hunting arowl and eager to slay any that dare venture into the Protected Lands. He has resolved to drive them from the land and for this purpose he created the arowl-mad, ravening beasts with an unquenchable hunger. He is thunder and lightning, he is the storm-and he despises all people. Spirits of wind, stream, forest, and mist inhabit this land, but these beings care nothing for the people, and some are cruel and hostile.
Generations past, disaster drove the people to seek a new home on a wild continent that had never before known a human presence. The Wild existed in beautiful and ruthless perfection-until the people came. Better, safer, to encounter this entity from a position of strength, armed with all the knowledge and power contained within the needle. He is sure that when the fleet enters Tanjiri system, he will meet this maker of worlds-with the lives of everyone he loves at stake. Perhaps the entity is gone? But Urban doesnt believe that. No one, nothing, has answered Dragons hails. An entity-one greater even than Lezuri-must have made that moon. Farther in, an Earthlike world orbits in the company of a miraculous living moon created less than 4,000 years ago. The belt of ruins lies ahead: a chaos of remnant megastructures from a fallen civilization. Now Dragon and its fleet of outriders has reached the periphery of Tanjiri system. Urban has only to discover the trick of opening it, to gain that knowledge for himself-but the needle remains an enigma. All Lezuris knowledge lies locked within that needle. A needle, ultra-thin and twelve centimeters long, with a silvery surface that slices light into rainbow glints. Urban still possesses the strange gift-the impossible puzzle-Lezuri gave him that day. You are not ready to encounter what exists there." Needle by Linda Nagata - New! Inverted Frontier, Book 3
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