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The Bloody Sun (1979 rewrite) [Darkover - A World Divided 03] Marion Zimmer Bradley

THE BLOODY SUN

A World Divided 03 - A Darkover Novel

To Keep the Oath

a renunciate short story

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Ebook Liberation Front digital back-up edition

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Contents

● THE BLOODY SUN - A Darkover Novel

❍ Prologue: Darkover

❍ Chapter One: The Terran

❍ Chapter Two: The Matrix

❍ Chapter Three: The Strangers

❍ Chapter Four: The Search

❍ Chapter Five: The Technician

❍ Chapter Six: Re-Exile

❍ Chapter Seven: Homecoming

❍ Chapter Eight: The World Outside

❍ Chapter Nine: Challenge to Arilinn

❍ Chapter Ten: The Way of Arilinn

❍ Chapter Eleven: Shadows on the Sun

❍ Chapter Twelve: The Trap

❍ Chapter Thirteen: Exile

❍ Chapter Fourteen: Doorway to the Past

❍ Chapter Fifteen: Through the Barrier

❍ Chapter Sixteen: The Broken Tower

❍ Chapter Seventeen: The Conscience of a Keeper

● TO KEEP THE OATH - a Renunciate short story

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Jeff Kerwin walked swiftly now through the dark, deserted

streets of Thendara. He heard a step behind him—a slow,

purposeful step, but told himself not to be suspicious; he wasn’t

the only man who might have a good reason to be out in the rain

tonight! The step kept pace with him, then quickened to

overtake him, and Kerwin stepped side to let the follower pass

in the narrow street.

That was a mistake. Kerwin felt a searing pain; then the top of

his head exploded and from somewhere he heard a voice crying

out strange words:

Say to the son of the barbarian that he shall come no more to

the plains of Arilinn! The Forbidden Tower is broken and the

Golden Bell is avenged!

THE BLOODY SUN

PLUS To Keep the Oath —a new Free Amazon story

never before published anywhere!

Ace Books by

MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY

ENDLESS UNIVERSE

FALCONS OF NARABEDLA

The Darkover Novels:

THE BLOODY SUN

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STAR OF DANGER

THE WINDS OF DARKOVER

THE SWORD OF ALDONES

THE PLANET SAVERS

THE WORLD WRECKERS

From Ace Science Fiction

THE BLOODY SUN

Zimmer Bradley

TO KEEP THE OATH

reproduced in any form or by any means, except for the

inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without

permission in writing from the publisher.

All characters in this book are fictitious. Any

resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely

coincidental.

An ACE Book

Cover art by Michael Whelan

This Ace printing: April 1980

Printed in U.S.A.

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For showing me universes without number; in

loving memory, Henry Kuttner.

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The stranger who comes home does not make

himself at home but makes home strange.

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Prologue: Darkover

^ »

The Leronis

Leonie Hastur was dead.

The ancient leronis, sorceress of the Comyn, Keeper of Arilinn,

telepath, trained with all the powers of the matrix sciences of

Darkover, died as she had lived, alone, sequestered high in the

Tower of Arilinn.

Not even her priestess-novice-apprentice, Janine Leynier of Storn,

knew the hour when death came quietly into the Tower and took her

away into one of the other worlds she had learned to walk as

skillfully as within her own enclosed garden.

She died alone; and she died unmourned. For, although Leonie was

feared, revered, worshipped almost as a Goddess throughout all the

Domains of Darkover, she was not loved.

Once she had been greatly loved. There had been a time when

Leonie Hastur had been a young woman, beautiful and chaste as a

distant moon, and poets had written of her glory, comparing her to

the exquisitely shining face of Liriel, the great violet moon of

Darkover; or to a Goddess come down to live among men. She had

been adored by those who lived under her rule at Arilinn Tower.

Once, despite the austerity of the vows under which she lived

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(which would have made it blasphemy unspeakable for any man to

touch her fingertips) Leonie had been loved. But that had been long

ago.

And now, as the years had passed over her head, leaving her more

and more alone, further from humanity, she was loved less; and

feared and hated more. The old Regent Lorill Hastur, her twin

brother (for Leonie had been born into the royal house of the

Hasturs of Hastur, and if she had not chosen the Tower, she would

have stood higher than any Queen in the land), was long dead. A

nephew she had seen but a few times stood behind the throne of

Stefan Hastur-Elhalyn and was the real power in the Domains. But

to him Leonie was a whisper, an old tale and a shadow.

And now she was dead and lay, as the custom was, in an unmarked

grave within the walls of Arilinn, where no human being save those

of Comyn blood might ever come; in death no more secluded than

in life. And there were few left alive to weep.

One of the few who wept was Damon Ridenow, who had married

years ago into the Domain of Alton, and briefly been Warden of that

Domain for the young Heir to Alton, Valdir of Armida.*This story is told

in The Forbidden Tower. When Valdir had come of age and taken a wife,

Damon and all his household, which was large, had removed to the

estate of Mariposa Lake, which lay in the pleasant upland country in

the foothills of the Kilghard Hills. When Leonie was young, and

Damon was young, and he a mechanic in the Tower of Arilinn, he

had loved Leonie; loved her chastely, with never a touch or a kiss or

any thought of breaking the vows that bound her. But he had loved

her, nonetheless, with a passion that had given form and color to all

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his life afterward; and when he heard of her death, he went apart to

his own study and there he shed the tears he would not shed before

his wife or his wife’s sister, who had once been Leonie’s novice-

Keeper at Arilinn, or before any of his household. But if they knew

of his grief—and in a household of Comyn telepaths such things

could not well be hidden—no one would speak of it; not even his

grown sons and daughters asked why their father grieved in secret.

Leonie, to them, of course, was only a legend with a name.

And so, when the news spread throughout the Domains, there was

much excited speculation, even in this most distant of remote

corners in the Domains, about the question that now quickened and

burned all over the Domains, from the Hellers to the Plains of

Arilinn: Who now will be Keeper of Arilinn?

And to Damon, one day soon after that, in the privacy of his own

study, came his youngest daughter Cleindori.

She had been given the old-fashioned name, legendary and

traditional, of Dorilys: Golden-flower. But as a child her hair had

been pale sunny gold, and her eyes so big and blue that her nurses

dressed her always in blue frocks and blue ribbons; her foster-

mother, Damon’s wife Ellemir, said that she looked like a blue bell

of the kireseth flower, covered with its golden pollen. So they had

nicknamed her, when she was only a toddler, Cleindori, Golden

Bell, which was the common name for the kireseth flower: And as

the years passed, most people had all but forgotten that Dorilys

Aillard (for her mother had been a nedestro daughter of that

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