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: R.A. Salvatore
  
  Dark Elf Trilogy 03 -
  
  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 Under?dark for more than
  four decades.
  
  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 draw?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 the fabric itself was simply melting away. Wide holes
  appeared 