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By Robin Hobb

THE FARSEER TRILOGY

Assassin’s Apprentice

Royal Assassin

Assassin’s Quest

THE LIVESHIP TRADERS

Ship of Magic

The Mad Ship

Ship of Destiny

THE TAWNY MAN

Fool’s Errand

The Golden Fool

Fool’s Fate

Writing as Megan Lindholm

The Reindeer People

Wolf’s Brother

Harpy’s Flight

The Windsingers

The Limbreth Gate

Luck of the Wheels

Cloven Hooves Alien Earth

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ROBIN HOBB

Shamans Crossing

THE SOLDIER SON TRILOGY ONE

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Voyager An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB

www.voyager-books.co.uk

Published by Voyager

Robin Hobb asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of

this work

Map by Andrew Ashton

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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ISBN

Typeset in Sabon by

Palimpsest Book Production Limited

Polmont, Stirlingshire

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Limited, St Ives plc

stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any

means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or

otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.

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Soldier Son 01

Shaman’s

Crossing

Robin Hobb

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Contents
●     CHAPTER ONE
●     CHAPTER TWO
●     CHAPTER THREE
●     CHAPTER FOUR
●     CHAPTER FIVE
●     CHAPTER SIX
●     CHAPTER SEVEN
●     CHAPTER EIGHT
●     CHAPTER NINE
●     CHAPTER TEN
●     CHAPTER ELEVEN
●     CHAPTER TWELVE
●     CHAPTER THIRTEEN
●     CHAPTER FOURTEEN
●     CHAPTER FIFTEEN
●     CHAPTER SIXTEEN
●     CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
●     CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
●     CHAPTER NINETEEN
●     CHAPTER TWENTY
●     CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
●     CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
●     CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
●     CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
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Dedication

To Caffeine and Sugar, my companions through many a long night

of writing.

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MAP

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CHAPTER ONE

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Magic and Iron

I remember well the first time I saw the magic of the plainspeople.

I was eight and my father had taken me with him on a trip to the

outpost on Franner’s Bend. We had arisen before the dawn for the

long ride; the sun was just short of standing at noon when we finally

saw the flag waving over the walls of the outpost by the river. Once,

Franner’s Bend had been a military fort on the contested border

between the plainspeople and the expanding Kingdom of Gernia.

Now it was well within the Gernian border, but some of its old

martial glory persisted. Two great cannons guarded the gates, but

the trade stalls set up against the mud-plastered stockade walls

behind them dimmed their ferocity. The trail we had followed from

Widevale now joined a road that picked its way among the remains

of mud-brick foundations. Their roofs and walls were long gone,

leaving the shells gaping at the sky like empty tooth sockets in a

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skull. I looked at them curiously as we passed, and dared a question.

“Who used to live here?”

“Plainspeople,” Corporal Parth said. His tone said that was his full

reply. Rising early did not suit his temperament, and I suspected

already that he blamed me for having to get out of bed so early.

I held my tongue for a time, but then the questions burst out of me

‘Why are all the houses broken and gone? Why did they leave? I

thought the plainspeople didn’t have towns. Was this a plains-

people town?”

“Plainspeople don’t have towns, they left because they left, and the

houses are broken because the plainspeople didn’t know how to

build any better than a termite does.” Parth’s low-voiced answer

implied that I was stupid for asking.

My father has always had excellent hearing. “Nevare,” he said.

I nudged my horse to move up alongside my father’s taller mount.

He glanced at me once, I think to be sure I was listening, and then

said, “Most plainspeople did not build permanent towns. But some,

like the Bejawi folk had seasonal settlements. Franner’s Bend was

one of them. They came with their flocks during the driest part of

the year, for there would be grazing and water here. But they didn’t

like to live for long in one place, and so they didn’t build to last. At

other times of the year, they took their flocks out onto the plains and

followed the grazing.”

“Why didn’t they stay here and build something permanent?”

“It wasn’t their way, Nevare. We cannot say they didn’t know how,

for they did build monuments in various locations that were

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significant to them, and those monuments have weathered the tests

of time very well. One day I shall take you to see the one named

Dancing Spindle. But they did not make towns for themselves as we

do, or devise a central government or provide for the common good

of their people. And that was why they remained a poor, wandering

folk, prey to the Kidona raiders and to the vagaries of the seasons.

Now that we have settled the Bejawi and begun to teach them how

to have permanent villages and schools and stores, they will learn to

prosper.”

I pondered this. I knew the Bejawi. Some of them had settled near

the north end of Widevale, my father’s holdings. I’d been to the

settlement once. It was a dirty place, a random tumble of houses

without streets, with rubbish and sewage and offal scattered all

around it. I hadn’t been impressed. As if my father could hear my

thoughts, he said, “Sometimes it takes a while for people to adapt to

civilization. The learning process can be hard. But in the end it will

be of great benefit to them. The Gernian people have a duty to lift

the Bejawi folk and help them learn civilized ways.”

Oh, that I understood. Just as struggling with mathematics would

one day make me a better soldier. I nodded and continued to ride at

his stirrup as we approached the outpost.

The town of Franner’s Bend had become a traders’ rendezvous,

where Gernian merchants sold overpriced wares to homesick

soldiers and purchased hand-made plainsworked goods and trinkets

from the bazaar for the city markets in the west. The military

contingent had a barracks and headquarters there which was still the

heart of the town but the trade had become the new reason for its

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