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The Sailor on the Seas of Fate Book Two of the Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock All rights reserved. Copyright ?? 1976 by Michael Moorcock. CONTENTS Book ONE SAILING TO THE FUTURE. 3 I5 II10 III15 IV.. 20 V.. 26 Book TWO SAILING TO THE PRESENT. 34 I35 II40 III48 IV.. 54 V.. 57 VI62 VII69 Book THREE SAILING TO THE PAST. 71 I72 II77 III81 IV.. 86 V.. 88 VI93 VII97 ?? ?? Book ONESAILING TO THE FUTURE ???????? ?? . . . and leaving his cousin Yyrkoon sitting as regent upon the Ruby Throne of Melnibonè, leaving his cousin Cymoril weeping for him and despairing of his ever returning, Elric sailed from Imrryr, the Dreaming City, and went to seek an unknown goal in the worlds of the Young Kingdoms where Melnibonèans were, at best, disliked. THE CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK SWORD ???????? ???????? I It was as if the man stood in a vast cavern whose walls and roof were comprised of gloomy, unstable colors which would occasionally break and admit rays of light from the moon. That these walls were mere clouds massed above mountains and ocean was hard to believe, for all that the moonlight pierced them, stained them and revealed the black and turbulent sea washing the shore on which the man now stood. Distant thunder rolled; distant lightning flickered. A thin rain fell. And the clouds were never still. From dusky jet to deadly white they swirled slowly, like the cloaks of men and women engaged in a trancelike and formalistic minuet: the man standing on the shingle of the grim beach was reminded of giants dancing to the music of the faraway storm and felt as one must feel who walks unwittingly into a hall where the gods are at play. He turned his gaze from the clouds to the ocean. The sea seemed weary.?? Great waves heaved themselves together with difficulty and collapsed as if in relief, gasping as they struck sharp rocks. The man pulled his hood closer about his face and he looked over his leathern
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