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    Losing Heart Among the Tall: A Tor.com Original
    Losing Heart Among the Tall: A Tor.com Original
    Losing Heart Among the Tall: A Tor.com Original
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    Losing Heart Among the Tall: A Tor.com Original

    By A. M. Dellamonica

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    A.M. Dellamonica is at it again! The thrilling adventures of Gale Filachild and Captain Perrish continue in a series of prequel stories that offers to take us deeper into the fascinating world of Stormwrack.

    When the crew of the Nightjar find a merman of the fleet wounded and stranded in the ocean, Gale’s sister, Beatrice, is forced to take a back seat while Gale and Parrish work to find out who would assault a member of the nation of Tallon’s intelligence service. They soon discover a plot that could shake the foundations of the fleet and Beatrice might be the key to preventing a catastrophic disaster.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateFeb 22, 2017
    ISBN9780765394743
    Losing Heart Among the Tall: A Tor.com Original
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    A. M. Dellamonica

    A.M. DELLAMONICA is the author of Indigo Springs, which won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Realms of Fantasy, Sci-Fiction and Strange Horizons, and in numerous anthologies; her 2005 alternate-history Joan of Arc story, “A Key to the Illuminated Heretic,” was shortlisted for the Sideways Award and the Nebula Award. Dellamonica lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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      Losing Heart Among the Tall - A. M. Dellamonica

      Nightjar was four leagues out from the nearest land when one of her riggers spotted the merman. A weakly thrashing glimmer of silver scale on the choppy, sunlit sea, he had flaxen hair, blue glazed eyes, and a harpoon through his chest. When they brought him aboard, he was trying to swim west sou’west, toward Tallon.

      A biggish octopus slid off him as they raised the body, dangling by one tentacle before dropping into the water and vanishing into a petulant, inky swirl.

      Bring stanchleaf, Royl ordered quietly. There was no saving the merman, but they might hold death away long enough to haul him home to report in. But the fellow spared ’em all the effort. Gasping red foam, he clutched at Royl’s jacket.

      Yacoura! he gasped. Then a shudder ran from his head to the tip of his fanning tail, the last thrill of life going out of him.

      Damn and thunder too. Belay the stanchleaf, he said. Cover the body and get him below. Try not to wake our guest, and get me Parrish.

      The lady’s up, Kir, a crewman said.

      It was true: Beatrice was yawping at the huge corpse, clutching her baby daughter to her chest.

      Royl got to his feet, brushing fish off his hands, and wondering if she would start to shriek. He had known the woman for thirty years—she was his employer’s sister—and she had the temperament of an overheated kettle.

      What did he say to you? she demanded as Royl approached. The baby was sleeping; she kept her voice low, but it cut like a

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