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Catch a Falling Star

ISBN 9781419916960

Edited by Mary Altman & Kelli Kwiatkowski.

Cover art by Syneca.

Electronic book Publication July 2008

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C ATCH A F ALLING S TAR

Allyson James

King of Pentacles

The King of Pentacles appears as a wealthy king seated on a throne—or

occasionally a horse or chariot—wearing sumptuous robes. A castle rises in the

background, and his abundant riches surround him.

Connected to the element of Earth, the King of Pentacles is a true leader—his

characteristics are steadfastness and reliability and skill at almost anything. His abilities

bring wealth, but in a comfortable, not extravagant, way. He is wise and generous,

sharing his abundance with others and helping those in need. Anyone seeking the King

of Pentacles would be protected and sheltered and come away stronger.

Catch a Falling Star

Chapter One

Pamaar

A star fell from the blackness of space, streaking through the night in a cacophony

of red, blue and yellow.

When the star falls, the queen will come and the world will be reborn.

Thane, naked at the window, gripped the sill with a sinewy hand. “Deon.”

Behind him on the bed, a dark bulk of a man made a snorting noise and drifted

deeper into sleep.

“ Deon .”

Another loud snort then Deon sat straight up, his long black braids hanging across

a hard face, forehead tattooed with a single pentacle. He reached for the sword he kept

leaning next to the bed, instantly alert.

“What? What’s wrong?”

“A falling star.”

“What?”

“Focus, my friend,” Thane said impatiently. “A falling star.”

Deon rumbled like an annoyed bear. “What about it?”

“The seer. You remember? All of two days ago?”

The three interlaced pentacles on Thane’s forehead seemed to burn. He’d called the

seer in an attempt to reassure his people that the land was not dying, that he at thirty

years old had not yet lost his grip on the kingdom.

The ceremony had backfired when the seer confirmed that Thane’s powers had

dropped a long way from when he’d first become king at twenty. His power to heal had

diminished, and with it, the fertility of the land.

His rivals in the falcon-sword clan had brightened. When the king could no longer

function as king, he should allow himself to be slain in single combat in order for a new

and stronger king to rise. In this case, the leader of the falcon-sword clan, Felin, was

next in line to inherit the kingship of Pamaar.

Thane’s men of the lion-star clan had muttered among themselves, knowing their

power was diminishing slowly but surely. Then the seer had proclaimed, When the star

falls, the queen will come and the world will be reborn.

And a star had just fallen.

Did it mean this woman would help Thane regain his powers? Or that he would die

and Felin would assume rule of Pamaar?

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