Piers Anthony & Robert E. Margroff - Kelvin 3 - Chimaera's C

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Chimaera's Copper
Chimaera's Copper
Piers Anthony and Robert E. Margroff
 
Kelvin of Rud, book 3
 
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHARACTERS
PROLOGUE
Chapter 1. Travel
Chapter 2. Summoned
Chapter 3. Tribute
Chapter 4. Amb-assador
Chapter 5. Chimaera
Chapter 6. Dupes by Default
Chapter 7. Squarears
Chapter 8. Battles Strange
Chapter 9. Fool's Return
Chapter 10. Sticky, Sticky
Chapter 11. The Berries
Chapter 12. Helbah
Chapter 13. Stapular
Chapter 14. Turnings
Chapter 15. Disappearance
Chapter 16. Charlain
Chapter 17. New Old Enemies
Chapter 18. Healings
Chapter 19. Revolutionaries
Chapter 20. A Meeting of Kinds
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Chapter 21. Return Journey

Chapter 22. Apprentice

Chapter 23. Scarebird

Chapter 24. Army

Chapter 25. True Love Runneth

Chapter 26. Over

Chapter 27. Return

Chapter 28. Goodbye Again

Chapter 29. Antidote

Chapter 30. Defeat?

EPILOGUE

INTRODUCTION

This is the third novel in a fantasy series in which the inhabitants of alternate worlds are

distinguished by the shape of their ears. In the first novel, Dragon's Gold, young round-eared Kelvin

and his point-eared little tomboy sister Jon managed to kill a golden-scaled dragon and later save the

kingdom of Rud and their father John Knight from the clutches of evil Queen Zoanna. In the

process, Kelvin found love with round-eared Heln, and Jon with Lester Crumb.

In the sequel, Serpent's Silver, Kelvin's half brother Kian discovered an alternate world where most

folk were round-eared, but it wasn't John Knight's world of origin, Earth. Some folk had flop-ears,

and many folk were similar to those of the point-eared world, except that their characters were

reversed. Here good King Rufurt was evil King Rowforth, and evil Queen Zoanna was good Queen

Zanaan. Instead of golden-scaled dragons there were silver-skinned serpents. Again the forces of evil

were finally thwarted—but the mysterious Prophecy of Mouvar had not yet run its full course.

The third novel, Chimaera's Copper, covers another stage of that prophecy. But that does not mean

the outcome is certain; for one thing, there are those who doubt that the prophecy has any validity.

There are many characters, and versions of characters, so it may be best to refer to the following

descriptions of characters when there is confusion. They are listed approximately in the order of

their appearance or relevance to the story, and of course there is much about them that is not told

here. Things are often not quite what they seem, when magic is involved.

CHARACTERS

Mouvar—fabled roundear who made the prophecy and set up a chain of scientific transporters

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linking the frames

Queen Zoanna—beautiful, evil former queen of Rud in the pointear frame; lost in dark nether waters

near the Flaw

Professor Devale—demon sorcerer and educator

King Rowforth—evil king of Hud, deposed. Analogue of good King Rufurt in the pointear frame

Queen Zanaan—the good version of Zoanna, in the roundear frame

Broughtmar—former aide and torture-master to King Rowforth; a mean man

Zotannas—good magician, but little real magic; Queen Zanaan's father. Analogue of Zatanas, evil

magician of the point-eared frame

Kelvin Knight Hackleberry—the unlikely hero of the prophecy, and thus of all the novels of this

series

King Rufurt—good king of Kelvinia, a gentle and somewhat ineffective man

Charley Lomax—one of the king's guards

John Knight—traveler from Earth, stranded in the magic realm; father of Kelvin and Kian

Slatterly—another guard

Kian Knight—Kelvin's half brother, the son of John Knight and Queen Zoanna

Lonny Burk—girl of Hud whom Kian loves

Heln—Kelvin's roundeared and pregnant wife

Jon—Kelvin's younger sister. His ears are round, hers pointed. He sometimes calls her "Brother

Wart" because she once posed as a boy

St. Helens—familiar name for Sean Reilly, Heln's father from Earth; once a soldier in John Knight's

platoon

Lester "Les" Crumb—Jon's husband, son of Mor Crumb

Charlain—Kelvin and Jon's mother; wife first of John Knight, then of Hal Hackleberry

Hal Hackleberry—Charlain's second husband; a good but simple man, whose name Kelvin and Jon

took

Easter Brownberry—Hal's girlfriend

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Old Man Zed Yokes—river man who ferries others across

Phillip Blastmore—former boy-king of the kingdom of Aratex before it became part of Kelvinia

Morton "Mor" Crumb—former leader of a band that helped Kelvin overthrow the evil Queen

Zoanna of Rud; now a general

King Bitler—king of Hermandy, one of the seven kingdoms

Chimaera—with three heads: Mervania, Mertin, and Grumpus

Dr. Lunox Sterk—Royal Physician of Kelvinia

Stapular—prisoner of the chimaera

King Kildom—boy-king of Klingland

King Kildee—boy-king of Kance

Helbah—old sorceress of Klingland and Kance, good version of Melbah of Aratex

Katbah—Helbah's houcat familiar

Bloorg—Keeper of the Chimaera and official greeter of travelers

Captain Abileey—officer in Mor Crumb's army

Captain Plink—officer in Mor Crumb's army

Captain Barnes—Lester Crumb's second-in-command

Grool—Bloorg's second-in-command

Squirtmuck—a froogear leader

General De Gaulic—Commander of the Army of Kance

Lieutenant Karl Klumpecker—mercenary officer from Throod

King Hoofourth—monarch of the kingdom of Scud

Bert—a guard at the transporter cave

Scarface Jac—outlaw of Scud, analogue of Cheeky Jac in another frame, and of Smoothy Jac

Queeto—evil dwarf companion to Zatanas

Heeto—saintly dwarf companion to Zotannas

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Smith—or a man by a similar name, member of Jac's band

Marvin Loaf—analogue of Morton Crumb

Hester—Marvin's son = Lester

Jillip—member of Marvin's band, analogue of Phillip

Corporal Hinzer—soldier in Lomax's camp

Redleaf—member of Marvin's band

Bilger—member of Marvin's band

Commander Mac—in charge of the Recruitment House; similar to Captain MacKay and Captain

McFay

Trom—guard

Mabel Crumb—Mor Crumb's wife

Charles Knight—Kelvin's son

Merlain Knight—Kelvin's daughter

PROLOGUE

NIGHT

She knew where she was going, if only she could get there. She had prevailed on the foolish John

Knight to bring her this far; now she had to go on alone.

She stepped off the raft and sank into the dark water. One arm was useless, but she could still move

the other, and her legs. She swam as well as she was able, down, down toward the bottom, not even

trying to hold her breath, for it would only buoy her body. The air in her tired chest squeezed out of

her nose and mouth and bubbled up in a silvery stream toward the raft and the confused man. Let

him go; his usefulness to her was done. The current would carry him into the dread Flaw.

She found the lock, and managed to drag herself into it. In a moment she came up in air, gasping.

She sprawled onto a platform, and finally let her consciousness fade.

Sometime later, in the dead of the eternal night that ruled here, a figure came. It was gross and

masculine. "You have returned, Zoanna," it rasped.

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