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took it, and walked slowly around the base of the pyre, cool raindrops
dampening his face, his hair. He smelled of soft rain. Danat touched
flame to tinder as he went, the coal oil flaring and stinking.
The fire roared. Smoke rose through the falling rain, carrying the body
of Otah Machi with it. And pale petals of almond blossoms floated over
the crowd and the pyre, the palaces and the city, like the a
that spring had come at last.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The Price of Spring is the fourth and final novel of the Long Price
Quartet by Daniel Abraham. The first three are A Shadow in Summer, A
Betrayal in 117inter, and An Autumn War. His short fiction has been
published in the anthologies Vanishing Acts, Bones of the World, The
Dark, and Logorrhea, and been included in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best
Science Fiction and The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror edited by Ellen
Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, as well. His story "Flat Diane"
won the International Horror Guild Award for best short story. His
novelette "The Cambist and Lord Iron" was short-listed for the Hugo and
World Fantasy awards. He is also the coauthor of Hunter's Run with
Gardner R. Dozois and George R. R. Martin. He lives in New Mexico with
his family.
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