Warriorwards
Jiana, hero for hire, managed to accomplish a lot on her last adventure. Indeed more than all of the heroes of Bay-bay and its boy-prince could manage. But life goes on after the adventure is over, and Jiana decides she needs something to give her life direction: she'll take on a new apprentice, and make a perfectly well-adjusted hero out of this one (since her last apprentice fell in with some pretty unsavory company).
But Jiana couldn't pick just anyone: she had to choose a crippled slave girl. And everyone knows you can't free a slave -- slaves have to free themselves. So Jiana has a friend sell her into slavery too, so that she can teach this girl how to become a hero from the bottom up.
For her first lesson, Jiana must free herself.
But Jiana couldn't pick just anyone: she had to choose a crippled slave girl. And everyone knows you can't free a slave -- slaves have to free themselves. So Jiana has a friend sell her into slavery too, so that she can teach this girl how to become a hero from the bottom up.
For her first lesson, Jiana must free herself.
FictionFantasyScience Fiction
RELEASED1990
PUBLISHERBaen Books
LENGTH344
LANGUAGEEN
Dafydd ab Hugh is an author whose novelette, "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" in Asimov's Science Fiction, was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1990. Simon & Schuster has published eleven ab Hugh novels in the Doom and Star Trek franchises.
Warriorwards
Jiana, hero for hire, managed to accomplish a lot on her last adventure. Indeed more than all of the heroes of Bay-bay and its boy-prince could manage. But life goes on after the adventure is over, and Jiana decides she needs something to give her life direction: she'll take on a new apprentice, and make a perfectly well-adjusted hero out of this one (since her last apprentice fell in with some pretty unsavory company).
But Jiana couldn't pick just anyone: she had to choose a crippled slave girl. And everyone knows you can't free a slave -- slaves have to free themselves. So Jiana has a friend sell her into slavery too, so that she can teach this girl how to become a hero from the bottom up.
For her first lesson, Jiana must free herself.
But Jiana couldn't pick just anyone: she had to choose a crippled slave girl. And everyone knows you can't free a slave -- slaves have to free themselves. So Jiana has a friend sell her into slavery too, so that she can teach this girl how to become a hero from the bottom up.
For her first lesson, Jiana must free herself.
FictionFantasyScience Fiction
RELEASED1990
PUBLISHERBaen Books
LENGTH344
LANGUAGEEN
Dafydd ab Hugh is an author whose novelette, "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" in Asimov's Science Fiction, was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1990. Simon & Schuster has published eleven ab Hugh novels in the Doom and Star Trek franchises.
