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  —Essentially the same, Tarani, but for a different reason. I’ll take a lesson from Livia, and measure my value by the caring of my friends. As long as I remember that I must be “worthy of all this concern,” I think I’ll stay on the right track.

  —It is an odd feeling, is it not? That the effort of many years is at an end?

  —More so for you, I should think, than for me. Will you miss Recording?

  —I shall not have the opportunity. Now that the Record is complete, I must begin training Recorders in its use.

  —There is never an end to it, is there? Always something more to do.

  —I remind you of something you said to me at Iribos, that we might wish for “a pleasant duty, and a peaceful destiny.” There have been and will be exceptions, of course, but in general I feel we have found our wish. For me, it is enough.

  —For me as well, Tarani. As long as I may share it with you and our children, and Keeshah and his family.

  —Then call those who wait outside, so that we may renew our strength for the tasks to come.

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  VICKI ANN HEYDRON met RANDALL GARRETT in 1975. In 1978, they were married, and also began planning the Gandalara Cycle. A broad outline for the entire Cycle had been completed, and a draft of The Steel of Raithskar nearly finished, when Randall suffered serious and permanent injury. Working from their outline, Vicki has completed the Cycle. Of all seven books, Vicki feels that The River Wall is most uniquely hers. The other titles in the Cycle are The Glass of Dyskornis, The Bronze of Eddarta, The Well of Darkness, Return to Eddarta, and The Search for Kä.

  ALSO BY RANDALL GARRETT

  THE GANDALARA CYCLE

  (with Vicki Ann Heydron)

  The Steel of Rathskar

  The Glass of Dyskornis

  The Bronze of Eddarta

  The Well of Darkness

  The Search for Kä

  Return to Eddarta

  The River Wall

  THE LORD DARCY SERIES

  Murder and Magic

  Too Many Magicians

  Lord Darcy Investigates

  all available as Jabberwocky ebooks

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