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had bought three days before. Learning to ride him hadbeen interesting, but unlike most of his tribe, he had a scathingpatience. He did not seem to loathe the peeve. But the peeve saton him, above the provisions, staring in horror at the lurchingground.

“Lumpy. Bumpy. Want get off.”

“Hush.”

They left the city by a huge blue gate, enameled with aunicorn that soldiers with picks were busy demolishing.

The road was lined with obelisks and statues, tall trees, and fountains with chained iron cups. A few carts and donkeys were being hastened to the gate before day’s end.

The fume on the plain was golden. The hills bloomed. Therewould be cedar trees and the lights of the villages, and then,beyond, the desert offering its beggar’s bowl of dusts.

Bred for the cold as for the heat, the woolly, cynical oldcamel could journey by night, while the thin snow fell from the stars.

Somewhere between the city and the desert, sunset began.

The sky was apple-red in the west, and in the east thecoolness of lilac raised the ceiling of the air to an impossibleheight. Stars broke out like windows opening. The land belowturned purple, sable, and its eastern heights were roses on the stem of shadow.

“It’s beautiful,” said Tanaquil.

It was beautiful. As beautiful as any beauty of the perfectworld.

“Oh, peeve. It wasn’t our fault we weren’t given the best,but this, and all the things that are wrong. But can’t we improve it? Make it better? I don’t know how, the odds are all against us.And yet—just to think of it, just to try—that’s a start.”

But the peeve had climbed down the patient, scornful forelegof the camel, and was digging in the dusty earth. It lifted up itspointed face from the darkness and announced in victory: “Foundit. Found a bone.”

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THE DREAM CHRONICLES envisions a potential future for humankind as security keeps trumping individual freedom. It is a warning and a celebration of the human spirit. It is adventure on the high seas of space: pirates and slavers and huge governments are in hot pursuit of the Dreamers; The ENTREPREN TRADERS (who control all interplanetary commerce and the life-extension drug Kiltrin) watch carefully, aware that stability is the greatest asset their business has and these Dreamers are a new chaotic reality in the galaxy; and then there is the ever powerful S3 with its head offices in New Omaha Beach on planet Earth—scheming, spinning the webs of its ancient spy master CYRUS MALONEY III.

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