The Gypsy Morph (56 page)
When it was all used up, drained away entirely, and all that remained of the boy was flesh and blood and bone, the boy awoke. No longer a gypsy morph, the wild magic no longer a part of him, he stood within the mists and remembered that his life was something more than what the wild
magic had demanded of him. There was a residue, a leaving. That part of him that was human had loved a girl and fathered a child. That part of him had lived among other children, who had been his friends and been left behind when he had come into the mountains and created the wall of mist.
He wanted to go back to them. He wanted to go home.
So the boy Hawk, who was a man now, a man whose mortal coil was no different from that of any other, walked out of the mists into the valley, alive and well and whole, and went in search of his life.
A
BOUT THE
A
UTHOR
T
ERRY
B
ROOKS
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, including the Genesis of Shannara novels
Armageddon’s Children
and
The Elves of Cintra; The Sword of Shannara;
the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy:
Ilse Witch, Antrax,
and
Morgawr;
the High Druid of Shannara trilogy:
Jarka Ruus, Tanequil,
and
Straken;
the nonfiction book
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life;
and the novel based upon the screenplay and story by George Lucas,
Star Wars
®
: Episode I The Phantom Menace.™
His novels
Running with the Demon
and
A Knight of the Word
were selected by the
Rocky Mountain News
as two of the best science fiction/fantasy novels of the twentieth century. The author was a practicing attorney for many years but now writes full-time. He lives with his wife, Judine, in the Pacific Northwest.
B
Y
T
ERRY
B
ROOKS
S
HANNARA
First King of Shannara
The Sword of Shannara
The Elfstones of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara
T
HE
H
ERITAGE OF
S
HANNARA
The Scions of Shannara
The Druid of Shannara
The Elf Queen of Shannara
The Talismans of Shannara
T
HE
V
OYAGE OF THE
J
ERLE
S
HANNARA
Ilse Witch
Antrax
Morgawr
H
IGH
D
RUID OF
S
HANNARA
Jarka Ruus
Tanequil
Straken
G
ENESIS OF
S
HANNARA
Armageddon’s Children
The Elves of Cintra
The Gypsy Morph
The World of Shannara
T
HE
M
AGIC
K
INGDOM OF
L
ANDOVER
Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
The Black Unicorn
Wizard at Large
The Tangle Box
Witches’ Brew
T
HE
W
ORD AND THE
V
OID
Running with the Demon
A Knight of the Word
Angel Fire East
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
The Gypsy Morph
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2008 by Terry Brooks
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
D
EL
R
EY
is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
eISBN: 978-0-345-50955-0
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brooks, Terry.
The gypsy morph / Terry Brooks.
p. cm.—(The genesis of Shannara)
1. Shannara (Imaginary place)—Fiction. 2. Elves—Fiction.
I. Title. II. Series.
PS3552.R6596G97 2008
813’.54—dc22
2008016680
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