Volume III: CRYSTALS OF AIR AND WATER
This book is dedicated to
all the wonderful people of the
Lothlorien discussion group…
May their frivolity reign forever
Chapter 1: The Royal Nuptials
The tale is told of Shammara the plotter, the queen of corruption, the woman who betrayed good Prince Ahmad and despoiled the fabled sacred city of Ravan, holiest city in Parsina; Shammara, whose name drips like a curse from the lips; Shammara, who trailed misery and destruction in her wake; Shammara, who, from her position of ultimate power within the City of a Hundred Temples, strove for still more power by traveling secretly into the mountains to traffic with the dreaded rimahniya, those worshipers of darkness and the lie.
There in those frigid caverns did she bargain with Abdel ibn Zaid, high
