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  1. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    So now you think the augury was misinterpreted. It said you had to go get someone. It didn't say who that someone was.
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  2. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    It said that the mission's copying costs were too high, so would she please type two hundred fifty copies of the attached letter in addition to her other duties.
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  3. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    Involuntarily, she stopped, jerked up her head, looked around her like a frightened woman. They weren't car horns: they were wind instruments
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  4. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought to defeat the Alend Monarch's army, take care of Master Gilbur and the arch-Imager Vagel, and produce peace on earth. While composing great music with her free hand. Instead of doing all that, however, she concentrated with a pure white intensity that resembled terror on simply staying in the saddle
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  5. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    she watched his face because she hoped it would betray some indication of her own reality – some flicker of interest or concentration of notice which might indicate that she was actually present with another person.
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  6. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    I can't spend my whole life just sitting on my hands and wondering when I'm going to fade. I can't. That's worse than doing something wrong. Isn't it?
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  7. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    What good are friends who treat you just like your enemies do?
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  8. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    His gaze turned cold as he faced her. 'Sure, she's attractive. A stone wall would be attractive if it looked like that. It's her attitude I don't like. There's more to love than just getting your itches scratched.
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  9. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    On the whole, she reflected with a loopy clarity while pain clanged back and forth in her head and the guard held her upright, she liked being rescued. It was better than not being rescued. Definitely.
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  10. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddened her: she herself wasn't too many things, but too few.
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  11. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautiful from the auburn hair that crowned her head to the tips of her white toes. He was handsome and courageous. She was held prisoner by enchantment. He was a fearless breaker of enchantments.As in all the fables, they were made for each other.
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