http://www.fsfmag.com/ Fiction Reprint from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Copyright 2009 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction en-us http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/images/fsfspot.gif http://www.fsfmag.com/ http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/reprint01.htm Sun, 1 November 2009 11:00:00 GMT Alex Irvine is best known for his novels A Scattering of Jades, One King, One Soldier, The Narrows, and Buyout. His story “Wizard’s Six” in our June 2007 issue marked his first venture into High Fantasy genre. Now he returns to the same milieu with a story that is neither a sequel nor a prequel, or maybe it’s both. It’s a broader tale, and elements of “Wizard’s Six” are encompassed in it, so if anything here seems familiar to you, that’s just an old memory echoing in your