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<title>The Shadowmaster - Prologue </title>
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<h1>Prologue</h1>
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<em>What has gone before…</em>
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<p>
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<em>It was time to make a hard decision. Jack Flint knew that.</em>
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Since the day he and Kerry Malone stumbled through the ring of standing stones in Cromwath Blackwood they had faced real danger time and time again.
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When they stepped between the ancient stones, they found themselves on a bloodied battlefield in the legendary world of Temair. There, they had
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befriended chieftain's daughter, Corriwen Redthorn, and fought their way across the country, harried by Scree ogres and by the mad Mandrake's henchmen,
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and guided by the ancient Book of Ways.
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It was in Temair that Jack first found clues to the identity of the father he had never met. He gradually realised that his father had been a traveller
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between the worlds, a hero who fought on the side of good. A
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</em>
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Journeyman.
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<em>Then Jack, Kerry and Corriwen had faced the devastating power behind Mandrake's reign of evil: The supernatural entity known as the Morrigan. </em>
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In the final confrontation they had barely escaped with their lives, but in the battle with the Morrigan, Corriwen was thrown through the mystical gate
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and vanished into another world. Jack and Kerry set of to rescue her, and found themselves in Eirinn, a world Jack only knew from myths he had read in
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old books.
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And Eirinn was no less perilous than Temair. Dermott the Wolf and his dark spellbinder Fainn hunted them from one side of the land to the other in
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pursuit of the Harp of Tara.
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It was not until they met Hedda the Scatha, the ferocious warrior woman, that Jack, Kerry and Corriwen and Connor, the rightful King of Eirinn, decided
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to stop running and fight back. Hedda had befriended Jack's father, the Journeyman Hero whose task was to protect the mythic worlds. She gave Jack a
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new-forged sword, identical to the one his father had wielded and Jack decided that his own quest would be to find him, no matter what dangers he might
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have to face.
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With the help of friends they had made in the fight against Dermott and Fainn, they faced their enemies near the magical Tara Hill where the harp's
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song summoned the Sky Queen, the ancient goddess of peace and harmony.
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On Tara Hill Jack was given yet another clue about his long lost father, the first bearer of the mysterious heartstone which Jack now wore at his
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neck..
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<em>Now, back in the ring of standing stones, his mind was up. It was no easy decision for a boy.</em>
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<em>But whatever the cost, Jack would venture once through the mythic gates…and this time he would travel alone.</em>
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