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“Yes,” Jas agreed. “As long as you don’t serve me any more of that wine.”

  “I think you’ll find that wine tastes quite different now,” the goddess replied. “Finder, Rebel Bard … until we meet again,” she added, saluting the god and his priest.

  Tymora teleported herself and Jas from Morning Glory, and their projected image disappeared from the sensorium.

  Finder bowed low to the Morninglord. “Well, Lord Lathander, it’s always interesting when we disagree,” he said.

  “Good-bye, god of reckless fools,” Lathander said. “Fare thee well.”

  Finder chuckled. He bent over and kissed Lathander’s paladin. “Good-bye, Holly Harrowslough. May songs of purity fill your heart, and may you always hear them singing.”

  “Good-bye, Lord Finder,” the paladin whispered. She looked down at the ground, unable to meet Joel’s eyes. She couldn’t forget that she had risked his life.

  The bard stooped in front of her. “It’s all right, Holly,” he said, kissing her cheek. “I know how hard your decisions were. In the end, you made the right ones.”

  Holly threw her arms around the bard’s neck and hugged him unashamedly.

  Finder and Joel strolled away from the temple to have one last look at the crater made by the gnomes’ fusion chamber.

  “Hey,” Emilo cried. “Wait for me.”

  “I’m sorry, Mr. Haversack,” Finder said. “I thought you had gone with Jas. I’ll be glad to take you home to Krynn if you’d like.”

  “Not yet,” the kender said. “First I want to see this place you call the Realms. I’d like to meet some halflings.”

  “And I’ll wager the halflings would like to meet you,” Joel said.

  In the sensorium on Sigil, Factol Erin Montgomery laughed. She had spied on the Rebel Bard long enough. She had seen all she desired. As far as she was concerned, this adventure was over. She rose to leave. Cuatha Da’nanin and Annali Webspinner followed her from the sensorium. Slowly the other Sensates began to depart as well.

  “A kender in the Realms …” Bors said thoughtfully as he found himself left alone with Ayryn in the sensorium.

  “It could be most interesting,” Ayryn commented.

  “Yes, most interesting indeed …” Bors agreed.

  About the Authors

  Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb are co-authors of the best-selling Finder’s Stone Trilogy. Their most recent collaboration was in the first title in The Lost Gods series, Finder’s Bane. Jeff is the author of Lord Toede and co-author, with Ed Greenwood, of Cormyr: A Novel. He is also an accomplished professional game designer. Kate has also published short stories and gamebooks with TSR.

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