title: SNOW PRINCESS SPELL,
author: Golden Books
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zlib_text: The Sorcerer
  
  CHAPTER ONE  
  7 Flamerule, The Year of Wild Magic (1372 DR)  
  it was the sound of despair, this strained silence that greeted the end of
  every report. With each account of yet another pact struck by the enemy, with
  every confession that a realm could raise no more troops, the envoys would
  drop their gazes to the polished surface of the conference table and study
  their reflections, and there would be no sound in the room but the sputtering
  of the oil lamps.  
  Only Princess Alusair Obarskyr, the Steel Regent of Cormyr, received the news
  with a raised chin, but it seemed to Galaeron Nihmedu that with each account
  of another cyclone spawned by the melting of the High Ice, with each
  description of a new city in flood or a nation's barley fields withering under
  a blazing sun, the furrows in the  
  princess's brow deepened, the circles beneath her eyes grew larger, darker,
  and more menacing.  
  Alusair turned her attention to Galaeron and said, "And what news from
  Evereska, Sir Ni