title: Soul among Lions: The Cougar as Peaceful Adversary
author:  Harley Shaw 
description: <div>&quot;A model for those hoping to find balanced information about the problems of human coexistence with other species. [Shaw] obviously loves the great cats, but he also is willing to present the position of ranchers and others concerned about the negative effects of encouraging these beautiful animals to proliferate too close to humans.&quot;&mdash; <i>Bloomsbury Review</i><br><br> &quot;A rare combination of scientist and storyteller, Shaw gives sound advice to hunters, preservationists, ranchers, and bureaucrats.&quot;&mdash;<i>Arizona Highways</i><br><br> &quot;Shaw can tell a hound and cat tale as well as anyone I&#39;ve ever seen. He can damn bureaucracy as only one who has been caught up in its tails can.&quot;&mdash;<i>Gray&#39;s Sporting Journal</i></div>
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  [Dust - Graham McNeill](part0001.html)
  
  
  [About The Author](part0002.html)
  
  
  [Legal](part0004.html)
  
  
  [eBook license](part0005.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # DUST
  
  
  by Graham McNeill
  
  
  I do not want to do this, but Hegazha leaves me no choice. He thought he had
  concealed his change from me, but there is little that can now be hidden from
  the sight of Ahzek Ahriman. Too few of us are left for secrets, but I must
  keep mine if I am to follow this dangerous path to its logical conclusion.
  
  
  He upends a desk wrought from pure will, and it crashes into me with the force
  of a Land Raider. The impact is ferocious and slams me hard against the wall
  of his sumptuous tower. Without my armour I would have been broken into
  pieces. Instead I am merely stunned. I had known he would refuse my offer, and
  needed no prescience of the Corvidae to know that, like all living things, he
  would fight for even the tiniest scrap of life.
  
  
  Yet knowing