Library Of The Sapphire Wind 1 Over Where – Jane Lindskold

From the way his tail kept lashing, Teg would have bet he wasn’t at all satisfied. “Well, we’ve been moving dirt and rock, but you ladies win the prize for the most interesting find. Figures. Come see what we’ve uncovered.” While the three mentors had been mapping, the sweating inquisitors had cleared away sufficient of the encroaching vegetation to discover that here—as in so many places—the ground was broken and uneven. Foundation lines showed how part of a wall remained on their level, while the rest of the same wall marched on a good five to eight meters below.

“The doors, if they’re here at all,” Vereez said, panting slightly and accepting Teg’s canteen with a grateful swish of her tail, “probably are associated with a part of the building that dropped down.” Teg knelt and inspected the buckled pavement, which was made from flat, hexagonal stones. “Down and possibly to one side or another. See how these pavers have shifted? According to the drawings in the brochures, there was an elaborate ornamental pavement leading up to the main entrance.

This is part of that pavement, but torqued.” “Any sense which way?” Grunwold asked eagerly. Teg shook her head. “Not with this small a sample, but if we clear some more . . .” Peg marched over, grasped the handles of a small, wheeled flatbed cart laden with the vegetation the inquisitors cut away, and groaned theatrically. “Let’s get to it!” They worked steadily, taking a quick break for lunch, then getting back to work almost before they were done chewing.

Maybe it was the rumble of the cart. Maybe it was the general excitement of being near their goal, but none of them—not even sharp- eared Vereez—noticed the approaching menace until one snared Peg around her middle with its tongue. She, very sensibly, screamed, then even more sensibly added, “Help!

I’m being eaten by a piranha toad!” The piranha toads were the size of a compact car, a mottled deep purple. They resembled a toad in that they were squat, as wide as they were long, and possessed of enormous mouths. These mouths boasted multiple rows of needle-sharp teeth, tightly spaced except for a gap in the middle through which the tongue—a cord of startling violet—snapped out.

Those teeth, Teg thought wildly, must be the piranha part. “Feerranu!” Vereez shouted, turning around, the shovel she’d been using on some stubborn roots in hand. “But these are enormous!” Not sparing time for a reply, Grunwold loped down the slope, machete in hand, heading toward Peg. Meg—who was perched up on a heap of masonry where she could take notes without being in the way—called in a voice so calm and cool that she might have been announcing that the library would be closing in fifteen minutes, “Two more of the feerranu are emerging from the undergrowth, to the right and left of the one that has Peg.”

Instead of mentors, they got monsters . . . That’s what Xerak, Vereez, and Grunwold think when three strange creatures shimmer into being within the circle of Hettua Shrine. Their conclusion is reasonable enough. After all, they’ve never seen humans before. As for Margaret Blake, Peg Gallegos, and Tessa Brown—more usually known as Meg, Peg, and Teg—they’re equally astonished but, oddly enough, better prepared. Age and experience have accustomed them to surprises.

A widely varied course of reading material has intellectually prepared them for the idea that other worlds, even worlds where people with traits more commonly ascribed to “animals” may exist. Then there is the mysterious verse that Teg speaks as they arrive, words that seem to indicate that the Shrine must have been at least partially responding to the request made of it. Despite doubts on all sides, the three unlikely mentors join forces with the three young “inquisitors” and venture out into the world Peg dubs “Over Where.”

First they must find the Library of the Sapphire Wind, destroyed years before. Will they find answers there, or is this only the first stage in their search? OceanofPDF.com BAEN BOOKS by JANE LINDSKOLD Over Where Library of the Sapphire Wind Aurora Borealis Bridge (forthcoming) Star Kingdom Fire Season (with David Weber) Treecat Wars (with David Weber) OceanofPDF.com Library of the Sapphire Wind This is a work of fiction.

All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. Copyright © 2022 by Obsidian Tiger, Inc. All rights reserved. A Baen Books Original Baen Publishing Enterprises P.O. Box 1403 Riverdale, NY 10471 www.baen.com ISBN: 978-1-9821-2591-2 eISBN: 978-1-62579-854-1 Cover art by Tom Kidd First printing, February 2022 Distributed by Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lindskold, Jane M., author.

Title: Library of the Sapphire Wind / Jane Lindskold. Description: Riverdale, NY : Baen Books, [2022] Identifiers: LCCN 2021049577 | ISBN 9781982125912 (trade paperback) Subjects: LCGFT: Fantasy fiction. | Novels. Classification: LCC PS3562.I51248 L53 2022 | DDC 813/.54–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021049577 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Electronic Version by Baen Books www.baen.com OceanofPDF.com DEDICATION For Jim, because he never stops believing, even in the impossible.

OceanofPDF.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Through its long voyage from crazy inspiration to the book you hold in your hands, there are many people who kept me on course. First and always, is my husband, Jim Moore. He always stayed interested in a project I wouldn’t let him read until it was completed. Then, when it was done, he was my first reader. During revisions, he listened to new passages.

When the manuscript was finally completed, several friends gave their time to read the final draft.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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