Cadderly never did learn the beggar’s real name and he preferred it that way. He and his friends went back to the priest who had shown them the grave, bearing a fair amount of gold they could spare for the deserving Jhanine, but it was Vander who threw in the largest gift: Aballister’s purse of gold, the advance sum given the Night Masks for Cadderly’s execution.
“Do you mean to cure the ills of the world?” Danica asked Cadderly again, after the companions had left the priest’s small house beside the graveyard. She looked at him pleadingly, fearful for her love, fearful that the new weight of responsibility would break him.
“I will do what I can,” Cadderly replied stubbornly. “It is the most that can be asked of us, and the least that any of us should be willing to give.”
A chill breeze blew in from the west, a reminder that winter was not far away. Cadderly looked into it, sought the lines of trails on the distant Snowflake Mountains, the paths that led to the Edificant Library.
Maybe it was time to go home.
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R.A. Salvatore
R.A. Salvatore was born in Massachusetts in 1959. His love affair with fantasy, and with literature in general, began during his sophomore year of college when he was given a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings as a Christmas gift. He promptly changed his major from computer science to journalism. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications in 1981 then returned for the degree he always cherished, the Bachelor of Arts in English. He began writing seriously in 1982, penning the manuscript that would become Echoes of the Fourth Magic.
His first published novel was The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988 and he is still best known as the creator of the dark elf Drizzt, one of fantasy’s most beloved characters.
His novel The Silent Blade won the Origins Award, and in the fall of 1997, his letters, manuscripts, and other professional papers were donated to the R.A. Salvatore Library at his alma mater, Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
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R. A. Salvatore, Night Masks
(Series: The Cleric Quintet # 3)
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