title: Heirs of Prophecy (Forgotten Realms: Sembia Series)
author:  Lisa Smedman 
description: LISA SMEDMAN is the author of four Shadowrun novels to date, and has contributed a short story to the debut title for the Sembia series, The Halls of Stormweather. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
zlib_text: Sembia, Book Five
  
  Heirs of the Prophecy
  
  By Lisa Smedman
  
  The Year of Wild Magic ( DR)  
  Crowned by the horns of a rising crescent moon, the stone stood in the forest,
  dappled with shadow and enfolded deep in the whispers and creaks of trees
  moving in the wind. Four times the height of a person and wider than extended
  arms could reach, it had been hewn from a single slab of gray granite, then
  polished by ancient crafters until it was as smooth and glossy as the surface
  of a still lake.  
  A solitary figure kneeled before the stone, his knees and bare feet denting
  the loamy ground. Dressed in short leather breeches with fringe at the knees
  and a leather vest tooled in an oak-leaf pattern, he held a bow, the ends of
  which had been carved in the shape of acorns. The fingers and thumb that
  gripped that bow were dark, though the hand itself was no ruddier than was
  usual for his race.  
  The figure's dark auburn hair was pulled back in a single braid, revealing
  sharply pointed ears, the left 