title: Through the Oracle's Mist: Vengelys Book I (Vengelys Series) (Volume 1)
author:  Aedan Byrnes 
description: There is no simple description for Aedan Byrnes. Obsessive, dreamer, reclusive, compulsive, outdoorsman and wordsmith would be among the list if one were started. The displaced Gael lives in the upper Midwest with family between jaunts wherever the road takes him. A frequent traveler, he is as likely to be found rock climbing or spelunking as sitting fireside dreaming or aimlessly floating away. A lifelong lover of words and writing, he claims a diverse reading appetite and his writing reflects the myriad influences. A self-proclaimed 'reader's writer', he looks for the emotional and the sensory in word combinations, not just the visceral comprehension of phrases in the stories he crafts and his love of all things literary shines through.
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  BOOK I. THE HOUSE OF THE TAMARISKS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. TELLING HOW, UNDER STRESS OF
  
  
  CIRCUMSTANCE, A HUMANIST TURNED HERMIT
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. ENTER A YOUNG SCHOLAR AND GENTLEMAN OF
  
  
  A HAPPY DISPOSITION AND GOOD PROSPECTS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. THE DOUBTFULLY HARMONIOUS PARTS OF A
  
  
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  CHAPTER IV. WATCHERS THROUGH THE SMALL HOURS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. BETWEEN RIVER AND SEA
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH THE PAST LAYS AN OMINOUS HAND
  
  
  ON THE PRESENT
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII. A CRITIC IN CORDUROY
  
  
  BOOK II. THE HARD SCHOOL OF THINGS AS THEY ARE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. IN MAIDEN MEDITATION
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. WHICH CANTERS ROUND A PARISH PUMP
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. A SAMPLING OF FREEDOM
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV. OUT ON THE BAR
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. WHEREIN DAMARIS MAKES SOME ACQUAINTANCE
  
  
  WITH THE HIDDEN WAYS OF MEN
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. RECOUNTING AN ASTONISHING DEPOSITION
  
  
  
  
  
  