title: The Eagle & The Nightingales: Bardic Voices, Book III
author:  Mercedes Lackey 
description: The prolific and popular Lackey proffers the third volume of her Bardic Voices fantasy saga. One of the nightingales of the title is a gypsy bard who comes to Kingsford Faire and, before she leaves, is up to her eyebrows in intrigues both mundane and magical that involve a large cast of characters, not all of them human or even corporeal. The book displays Lackey's usual sound characterization, brisk pacing, and intelligently detailed world building, which will hold readers of both fantasy in general and Bardic Voices in particular. Lackey is sufficiently gifted that one continues to hope for work that is more original than what she has been producing lately. Still, she remains an undoubted mistress of the well-told tale, and if she does not dazzle, neither does she disappoint. <i>Roland Green</i>
zlib_text: antique Unknown Mercedes Lackey Bardic Voices 03 Eagle And The Nightingales es
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  **The Eagle And The Nightingales**
  
  **Bardic Voices 03**
  
  **By Mercedes Lackey**
  
  **copyright 1995**
  
  **(version 2.0 minor formatting revisions)**
  
  **Dedicated to**
  
  **Gail Gallano,**
  
  **Mother of all Tulsa wildlife rehabbers!**
  
  **CHAPTER ONE**
  
  All the world comes to Kingsford Faire, the Midsummer Faire of Kings....
  
  A Gypsy known only as Nightingale sat on a riverside rock on the edge of the
  Faire grounds, with the tune of "Faire of the Kings" running through her head.
  Not that she liked that particular piece of doggerel, but it did have one of
  those annoying tunes that would stick in one's mind for hours or days.
  
  A light mist hung over the Kanar River, and a meadowlark nearby added his song
  to the growing chorus of birds singing from every tree and bush along the
  riverbank. The morning air was still, cool, and smelled of rive