title: Characters & Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing)
author:  Orson Scott Card 
description: About the Author<br /><br />Orson Scott Card is an award-winning science fiction novelist whose credits include the Hugo Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. His novels include Ender's Game, Shadow of Hegemon, and Speaker for the Dead, among others.
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  **Table of Contents**
  
    * Chapter One
    * Chapter Two
    * Chapter Three
    * Chapter Four
    * Chapter Five
    * Chapter Six
    * Chapter Seven
    * Chapter Eight
    * Chapter Nine
    * Chapter Ten
    * Chapter Eleven
    * Chapter Twelve
    * Chapter Thirteen
    * Chapter Fourteen
    * Chapter Fifteen
    * Chapter Sixteen
  
  **Tragic King**
  
  Sparrow Beckett
  
  Belfry Publishing
  
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  Copyright © 2017 by Sparrow Beckett
  
  All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form,
  except for the inclusion of brief quotations in review, without written
  permission from the author.
  
  This is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and events in this
  book are fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely
  coincidental.
  
  This book contains scenarios that should not be attempted or emulated.
  
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  Editor
  
  Nerine Dorman
  
  ****_**Chapter One**_ ****
  
  How had he not recognized his own eyes looking back at