title: Seeing Redd: The Looking Glass Wars, Book Two
author:  Frank Beddor 
description: "There is plenty of violence, gore, and battle action here, and readers will find the pace breathtaking."--<i>School Library Journal</i><br><br>"If you are interested in watching the birth of a well-thought out franchise, then this is for you. If you are simply curious or a hard-core fan of fantasy fiction, the looking glass awaits."<i>--Children's Literature&#160;</i>
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  **Sky Trillium by Julian**
  
  
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  ## PROLOGUE
  
  
  THE old madman had fallen unconscious at last, prone on the dining room table
  amidst the remains of the meal. The prisoner let his glittering glass blade
  descend until its point touched the dark, wrinkled skin of the Archimage's
  neck.
  
  
  One thrust. A single movement of his arm and it would be ended.
  
  
  _Do it!_
  
  
  But the prisoner held back, cursing himself for a sentimental coward, his mind
  a storm of conflicting emotion. The cup of poisoned wine lay upset near
  Denby's flaccid brown hand. Dregs puddled on the shining gondawood surface,
  slowly whitening the varnish beneath. The magnificent table, more than twelve
  thousand years old, was probably ruined; but its insane owner would survive.
  At the last, standing over the helpless form of the Archimage of the Firmament
  with the razor-sharp fruitkn