title: What Happened in the Middle of the Night?
author:  John Syrbu 
description: <span><span> </span>Since he was a kid, Karl Lonngren has wondered what happens</span><span>during the middle of the night. As an Emeritus Professor of</span><span>Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa, Karl</span><span>finally decided to write about it in the form of this story. Karl joined</span><span></span><span>with his friend John Syrbu, an author, illustrator and dentist to</span><span>complete <i>What happened in the middle of the night?</i></span>
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  **PROPHECY**
  
  MASQUERADE CYCLE • BOOK III
  
  Vance Moore
  
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   **Vance Moore**
  
   **Chapter 1**
  
  "Where in the nine hells is everyone?" Haddad
  
  muttered as the small group of men and wagons tramped
  
  through the night. "Are we lost again?" His feet disturbed a mound of stones
  collected at the bottom of the crumbling hillside. The land seemed dead.
  Successive seasons of cold and heat had shattered rock and piled scree
  everywhere.
  
  The road was deep and cut wide, but the rock faces
  
  sloughed debris every day and covered the road or ate at its base. It was too
  cold for insects, and the column of
  
  marching men cut sharp shadows in the moonlight. Within
  
  hours the sun would rise and sear everything. It was a land of no good
  seasons.
  
  "Quiet, Haddad!" Natal murmured. "I'm sure the sergeant knows where he's
  going." Natal stamped his feet to warm them in the night air. "Anyway, the
  last thing he wants to hear is you."
  
  Both men were soldiers in the Jamuraan Kipamu Leagu