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    Spell Burnt and Sleepless
    Spell Burnt and Sleepless
    Spell Burnt and Sleepless
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    Spell Burnt and Sleepless

    By Stefon Mears

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    Hardened warriors melt out of the forest of evergreens. Wolves on the hunt. Surrounding Venya on the lonely dirt road. Ready to kill to claim what she carries.

    Venya: not just any courier. A clever warrior herself, and skilled in Arts no one ever taught warriors. Arts that might turn the ambush against those warriors.

    But those Arts exact a stiff toll.

    "Spell Burnt and Sleepless" – an exciting short story of fantasy adventure, full of action and twisted, dangerous magic. By Stefon Mears, author of Twice Against the Dragon, With a Broken Sword, and the Cavan Oltblood novels.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThousand Faces Publishing
    Release dateJun 1, 2018
    ISBN9781386344438
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      Spell Burnt and Sleepless - Stefon Mears

      Spell Burnt and Sleepless

      Spell Burnt and Sleepless

      Stefon Mears

      Thousand Faces Publishing

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      Courier work is for suckers.

      Old words. Venya was still in training when she heard them the first time. Learned the truth of them herself when she was still a squire. When she still hoped to be a knight. She’d carried news from the front to some second or third son of a duke, and he’d blamed her for a battle turning against him.

      Old words that came back to her now, as warriors melted out of the forest of evergreens on either side of the wide dirt road. Too much like wolves on the hunt for Venya’s liking.

      And timed well.

      The afternoon sun was less than an hour from setting over the Ironspike Mountains in the

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