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Copyright © 1975, by Dean R. Koontz
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Berkley Medallion Edition, AUGUST, 1975
IN the crisp morning, before the worst of the fog had lifted, the Pure humans came into the village,
descending the narrow winding road from their fortress, which perched on the edge of the alabaster cliff.
In the lead was their General, dressed in milky robes and seated on one of the soundless floating sledges
that only the Pures possessed. Two guards sat before him, two behind, all of them well armed.
Yet, from a distance, it was not the General who commanded attention, but the ranks behind him.
Fifty Pures walked after the craft, not of the station to warrant the expenditure of a sledge’s irreplaceable
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