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    Wild Hawk Down
    Wild Hawk Down
    Wild Hawk Down
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    Wild Hawk Down

    By R. J. Davnall

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    From behind bars in Federas' jail, master thief Van Raighan shows Pevan a vision of her as his lover. Before he can explain, his allies among the Children of the Wild attack the town to rescue him.

    Pevan is left with the choice: protect her home, or chase the truth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. J. Davnall
    Release dateApr 28, 2012
    ISBN9781476453552
    Wild Hawk Down
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    R. J. Davnall

    R. J. Davnall is a brightly-plumed, semi-nocturnal cryptid native to northwestern England. She has been making up stories, including her own, all her life, and thus probably shouldn't be trusted to write her own bio. When disguised as a human, she is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Game Design Studies, and a member of the Olaf Stapledon Centre for Speculative Futures, at the University of Liverpool

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      Wild Hawk Down - R. J. Davnall

      Wild Hawk Down

      Episode 1 of Falling With Style

      A Story of the Second Realm

      By R.J. Davnall

      Published by R. J. Davnall at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 R. J. Davnall

      Smashwords Edition License Notes:

      This ebook may be copied, distributed, reposted, reprinted and shared, provided it appears in its entirety without alteration, and the reader is not charged to access it.

      The Second Realm

      Van Raighan's Last Stand:

      Episode 1: I Can See Clearly Now

      Episode 2: You Can't Go Home Again

      Episode 3: A Hole In Her Mind

      Episode 4: Touching the Void

      http://itsthefuturestupid.blogspot.com/

      Contents

      Wild Hawk Down

      About the Author

      Falling With Style

      1. Wild Hawk Down

      The cell gave Van Raighan no privacy. Seated opposite him, outside the bars, the bare wooden stool bruising her buttocks and the stone wall cool against her shoulders, Pevan had nothing to do but stare at him. Charged with abetting Wildren, there was always the possibility that the diminutive thief had an ally among them powerful enough to get him out; the law commanded a constant watch kept.

      This, despite the fact that the cell was almost directly beneath the dais in the Warding Hall that supported the Stable Rods. Pevan was reasonably confident she could get a Gateway open in the floor, if she didn't hold it long. The wall would be pushing it; it would take a Wilder with a will of steel to do any better.

      She shifted on her seat, well aware that nothing would banish the ache short of standing up, and there was a knot in her spine that warned her how bad an idea that would be. One thing she did envy her prisoner was the mattress on his cot in the cell. Hard by mattress standards, certainly, but he showed no signs of discomfort despite having sat there since not long after Pevan's shift started.

      He cut an unimpressive figure, hunched and scrawny under a mop of straggly black curls, his clothes rumpled from too many days' wear; he'd had no opportunity to change since his arrest, two days earlier. He alternated between dozing and staring at whoever had guard duty, and spoke only when spoken to. Pevan wondered if he thought the display of calmness helped his case, or whether he was just confident of being rescued.

      Sherriff Pollack was no closer to getting to the bottom of the thief's motives, and Notia was too busy getting established as Four Knot to help. Rel and Dora had chosen the wrong time to vanish; calm Van Raighan might be, but he'd melt under Dora's glare if he tried giving her the same treatment he gave Pollack. Again, Pevan found herself biting back the urge to start questioning the man

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