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    The Guardians of Roydai
    The Guardians of Roydai
    The Guardians of Roydai
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    The Guardians of Roydai

    By Edwin C. Mason

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    Above the Isegsae looms the city of Roydai. Here, the twisting streets and sagging buildings hold every sort of depravity the human mind can comprehend. Below, an army encircles the walls, an army bent on destroying everything the city has been for the last thousand years.

    Auda, a teenage Healer apprenticed to doddering Oswine can't understand why they've come here. Those surrounding Roydai are like her in many ways. Bearers of the same culture, they think as she does. Auda knows she should be with them, or better, five hundred leagues from any conflict. Instead, she finds herself trapped among the murderers, bandits, and harlots within. Worse, not all those who defend the walls are human, and she knows stories....

    Oswine has a purpose, though. He remains in Roydai on a quest to uncover a thousand-year-old secret.

    This is a 28,000-word short novel, and is complete in this volume.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdwin C. Mason
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9781927857397
    The Guardians of Roydai
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    Edwin C. Mason

    Edwin C. Mason was born in 1964 in a house half full of books and dedicated his early years to similarly filling the other half. Now he dreams of filling other people's houses the same way. He started writing in 1977 after reading "Pirates of Venus" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and in the intervening years he has made every mistake it's possible for a writer to make. He lives in Toronto with his dreams and delusions.

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