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\nhttps://archive.org/details/bridestonecreed0000shei  \n# HE FELT HIS POWER POURING FROMHIM,DRAINING INTO THE DARK\n\nHOLLOw OF THE MAN,AND A SUDDENTREMBLING RAN THROUGH HIM...  \nHe jerked like a creature dying and a streamof white froth broke from his twisted mouth.His limbs no longer seemed to belong to him,so violent,so spasmodic was their threshing.The mare's tail on his bone mask whippedacross his face as he rode out away from theman and left his body to fall empty to theground.The flames leaped high for a momentand sank down into the dark.  \nMichael woke into terror,retching at the old,foul taste in his mouth,wiping his stingingeyes in a horror at what he might see-butthere was nothing,only his wife sleepingbeside him.And from this first drawing-in,the shaman never left Michael again.  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR  \nSheila Holligon was born and educated on Teesside,andnow lives on a farm on the North Yorkshire moors nearLealholm.She has had four collections of poetry pub-lished,and several short stories,and writes regularly forAmerican and Canadian papers about breeding rarepoultry.Her novels Nightrider and Bridestone are bothavailable in Signet Creed.  \nSIGNET  \nPublished by the Penguin Group  \nPenguin Books Ltd,27Wrights Lane,London w85Tz,EnglandPenguin Books USA Inc,375 Hudson Street,New York,New York 10014,USA  \nPenguin Books Australia Ltd,Ringwood,Victoria,Australia  \nPenguin Books Canada Ltd,1o Alcorn Avenue,Toronto,Ontario,Canada M4V3B2Penguin Books(NZ)Ltd,182-190 Wairau Road,Auckland 10,New Zealand  \nPenguin Books Ltd,Registered Offices:Harmondsworth,Middlesex,England  \nFirst published 1995  \n13579108642  \nCopyright C Sheila Holligon,1995All rights reserved  \nThe moral right of the author has been asserted  \nTypeset by Datix International Limited,Bungay,SuffolkPrinted in England by Clays Ltd,St Ives plcFilmset in 10/12 pt Monophoto Baskerville  \nExcept in the United States of America,this book is sold subjectto the condition that it shall not,by way of trade or otherwise,be lent,re-sold,hired out,or otherwise circulated without the publisher'sprior consent in any form of binding or coverother than that inwhich it is published and without a similar condition including thiscondition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser  \nFor Emanuel Z.  \n# Chapter One\n\nTHE shaman thrust his fingers into the blood of thedead baby and gave it to the fire in a red string.Dropping the child to the earth he pulled towards himhis wooden drum and,squatting beside it,began to beatsoftly on its skin cover.  \nHe watched the fire and waited.  \nOut of the future the man came sleepwalking slowlythrough the blackness between the lines of posts at theentrance to the village,each with its staring,bloodyhead spiked on the top.The drumbeat quickened,pullinghim towards the red eye of the fire.  \nThe shaman looked up across the flames at him andlet the drumbeat patter into silence.He rose to his feetand the firelight flickered on the running horse tattooedblue across his chest,on his mareskin cloak and the maskof bone on his head.He crackled with power:he was asmoking crystal,a transformer,a magician.He staredwith pale eyes at the man he had conjured up and knewhim for the chosen one.This was the one who in time tocome would give his goddess life again.The shaman'sown life here with his tribe was nearing its end.He hadseen it coming.Before he walked away from them for thelast time there was much he must teach this stranger.  \nThe shaman came through the red ash and billowingsmoke to stand beside the man.He could smell the fear-sweat on him,acrid and bitter.He reached out andpulled the stiff figure towards him,staring into the whiteface,then spat into each of the closed eyes.Fastening hismouth tightly over the cold lips he breathed into him as  \nif he were gentling a young horse.He felt his powerpouring from him,dra","cbCaifv3GbTUDRW8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifv3GbTUDRW8","pdf",9982889,260,"English","# Chapter One\n## 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