10 – Aftermath by Asprin, Robert

Thieves World #10 – Aftermath

Robert Asprin

AFTERMATH

CONTENTS

Dramatis Personae, Lynn Abbey

Introduction, Robert Lynn Asprin

Cade, Mark C. Perry

Wake of the Riddler, Janet Morris

Inheritor, David Drake

A Mercy Worse Than None, John Brunner

Seeing Is Believing (But Love Is Blind)

Homecoming, Andrew Ojfutt

AFTERMATH

Dramatis Personae

The Townspeople

AHDIOVIZUN; AHDIOMERVIZ; AHDIO-Proprietor ofSly’s Place, a legend- ary dive within the Maze.

AYE-GOPHLAN-Captain of the palace guard before the arrival of Prince Kadakithis. Now he is one of three men charged with keeping the peace in Sanctuary.

LALO THE LIMNER-Street artist gifted with magic he does not fully un- derstand.

GILLA-His indomitable wife.

GANNER-Their middle son, slain during the False Plague riots of the previous winter which signaled the end of severe civil unrest in Sanctuary.

VANDA-Their daughter, employed as nursemaid to the Beysib at the palace.

HAKIEM-Storyteller and confidant extraordinaire. HORT-Son of a fisherman and now Hakiem’s sometime apprentice.

JUBAL-Prematurely aged former gladiator. Once he openly ran Sanc- tuary’s most visible criminal organization, the hawkmasks; now he works behind the scenes.

MASHA ZIL-INEEL-Midwife whose involvement in the destruction of the Purple Mage enabled her to move from the Maze to respectability up- town.

MELILOT-Owner of a scriptorium where letters can be written or trans- lated.

MRADHON vis-Nisibisi adventurer and sometime spy. He has betrayed almost everyone and been betrayed in return, but he is a consummate survivor.