Shelfwear Small dots on top book ledge ROC Books, 1991, 302 pages The hounds of death had pursued the bard right to the magician's hidden citadel. And this desperate encounter between Bard Byron and the magician named Seymour would prove a time of destiny's change for both of them. For even as Seymour attempted a spell to save Byron, a deeper magic rescued them from the very jaws of death. Together bard and magician were forced to flee to the king's palace, the one place where they hoped to find sanctuary from countless enemies. And along the way Seymour learned that Byron was more than a simple bard He was a man possessed by the white mists of power, perhaps the long-prophesied bringer of a terrifying doom to all humankind....