title: Dark Warrior Untamed (The Talions, Book 3)
author:  Alexis Morgan 
description: Alexis Morgan has always been an avid reader, and she loves spending her days with hunky heroes and gutsy heroines. Shes published more than forty books, novellas, and short stories, including contemporary romances, American West historicals, and paranormal romances. She has been nominated for numerous industry awards, including the RITA from the Romance Writers of America, the top award in the romance genre.
zlib_text: CEREMONY
  
  
  by
  
  
  Glen Cook
  
  
  ## Book Three of The Darkwar Trilogy
  
  
  
  
  
  ## BOOK FIVE:
  
  
  ### METAL SUNS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter Twenty-Nine
  
  
  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
  Marika's darkship was forty miles from TelleRai's heart when the first sword
  of fire smote the world.
  
  
  
  
  
  The flash blinded her briefly. There were more flashes. She did not keep
  count. The Mistress of the Ship had been blinded, too, and had lost control.
  The darkship twisted toward the ground.
  
  
  
  
  
  Marika reached with the touch. Mistress! Get hold of yourself!
  
  
  
  
  
  Her vision cleared. A quarter mile to her left Kiljar's darkship fluttered
  downward, too, but it stabilized soon after she spied it.
  
  
  
  
  
  Marika felt Kiljar's touch. The Redoriad second sent, What has happened?
  
  
  
  
  
  I do not know. The strange weapons you mentioned?
  
  
  
  
  
  Marika looked back to the city so recently and hastily fled. A grisly glow
  backlighted the
  
  
  snowclouds. The world within, the ghost world of the touch and dark, was
  filled with terror and pain, unfocused, diffuse,