CHAPTER 9BATTLE IN THE HALFWORLD
Only once before, during his training under the Green Enchanter, had Kellory ventured into the shadowy realm. And then was he fresh and well-prepared. Now, still inwardly exhausted from his great struggle with the shioggua, and feeling the strain of the several times he had been forced to use his Power since entering the Valley of Silence, he was in no fit condition to duel between the planes of being.
His body left behind on the physical plane, the First World, he ventured into the Dubious Land as a shape of light. This peculiar region, which lay between the world of living men and the Other World where the spirits of the dead dwell, together with certain Beings that were never alive, was not real and true. Here illusion reigned, and here all things were
