title: The Sunset Casserole Book
author: Sunset
description: Pictorial paperback 1972 96p. 11.00x8.10x0.50 CASSEROLES : MEAT; POULTRY; SEA FOOD; VEGETABLE. RICE, MACARONI, NOODLES, EGGS AND CHEESE, CASSEROLES FOR A CROWD.
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  **MERCADIAN**
  
  
  **MASQUES**
  
  
  MASQUERADE CYCLE • BOOK I
  
  
  Francis Lebaron
  
  
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  **Fancis Lebaron**
  
  
  **Book I**
  
  
  1
  
  
  **Mercadian Masques**
  
  
  **Chapter 1**
  
  
  Years later, Atalla could remember every moment of
  
  
  the night he saw the ship that flew.
  
  
  It was early, at least two hours before morningsinging.
  
  
  The sky still held the pale yellow of dawn, though darker streaks showed where
  the deeper orange of full daylight was beginning to break through. Atalla had
  risen before sunrise because Father had promised he might ride his first
  jhovall, and the ten-year-old boy had been far too excited to sleep.
  
  
  All through the dark hours, he lay on his pallet, staring into the blackness,
  listening to the soft breathing of
  
  
  Mother and Father asleep in the adjoining bed. In the
  
  
  stillness of the country night, he could hear the mournful cries of mating
  qomallen to the south, and when the hour was latest he heard the distant
  booming vibrations of
  
  
  nights