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Thieves World 01 – Thieves World by Asprin, Robert

decide that his beloved Illyra had suffered too much in his absence and to

repent that he had gotten drunk or sought work outside the bazaar. He lifted her

gently and carried her back to their home, muttering softly to himself as he

walked.

Not even Dubro’s comforting arms could protect Illyra from the nightmare visions

that stalked her sleep once they had returned to their home. He shook off his

drunkenness to watch over her as she tossed and fretted on the sleeping linens.

Each time he thought she had settled into a calm sleep, the dreams would start

again. Illyra would awaken sweating and incoherent from fear. She would not

describe her dreams to him when he asked. He began to suspect that something

worse than the murder had taken place in his absence, though their home showed

no sign of attack or struggle.

Illyra did try to voice her fears to him at each waking interlude, but the

mixture of visions and emotions found no expression in her voice. Within her

mind, each re-dreaming of the nightmare brought her closer to a single image

which both collected her problems and eliminated them. The first rays of a

feeble dawn had broken through the fog when she had the final synthetic

experience of the dream.

She saw herself at a place the dream-spirit said was the estate called Land’s

End. The estate had been long abandoned, with only an anvil chained to a

pedestal in the centre of a starlit courtyard to show that it had been

inhabited. Illyra broke the chain easily and lifted the anvil as if it had been

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