title: Cloaked in Shadow: Dark Tales of Elves
author:  Elaine Cunningham 
description: A stand-out collection. The stories burrowed under my skin and followed me long after I closed the book. Spectacular. -- <i>Holly Lisle, author of Midnight Rain</i><br /><br />An eerie funhouse packed with twists and thrills. Not afraid of the dark? Read this and you will be. -- <i>S.L. Viehl, author of Blade Dancer</i><br /><br />Embrace and devour the masterfully menacing stories of Dark Elves in Cloaked in Shadows. -- <i>C. Dean Andersson, author of I Am Dracula and Warrior Witch, Book One in Saga Bloodsong</i><br /><br />Surprising in its diversity. The fantasy, humor, and horror within will appeal to a wide range of readers. Highly recommendable. -- <i>Kevin L. Donihe, author of Shall we Gather at the Garden? / editor of Bare Bone</i><br /><br />[A] delightfully twisted foray into the Land of Not and a required tome for fans of the Fey. -- <i>Dark Realms, Issue 18</i>
zlib_text: Robert Anthony Salvatore  
  Sojourn 
   
  Forgotten Realms: Dark Elf – 3 
   
   
   
  R. A. Salvatore 
  Sojourn 
   
  Prelude 
   
  The dark elf sat on the barren mountainside, watching anxiously as the line of red grew above 
  the eastern horizon. This would be perhaps his hundredth dawn, and he knew well the sting the 
  searing light would bring to his lavender eyes–eyes that had known only the darkness of the 
  Underdark for more than four decades. 
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  The drow did not turn away, though, when the upper rim of the flaming sun crested the 
  horizon. He accepted the light as his purgatory, a pain necessary if he was to follow his chosen path, 
  to become a creature of the surface world. 
  Gray smoke wafted up before the drow’s dark-skinned face. He knew what it meant without 
  even looking down. His piwafwi, the magical drow-made cloak that had so many times in the 
  Underdark shielded him from probing enemy eyes, had finally succumbed to the daylight. The 
  magic in the cloak had begun fading weeks before, and