“Sounds like my guest has arrived.”īoth women blinked twice. “Good morning, ladies,” Magnus called out. “I think it’s a sea monster,” he heard his hostess whisper. Instead he found his hostess, a plump woman whose long hair was covered with a black mantilla, in a deep, troubled conference with one of the serving girls about a recent arrival to the inn. Magnus awoke in his roadside inn just outside Lima, and once he had arrayed himself in an embroidered waistcoat, breeches, and shining buckled shoes, he went in search of breakfast.

He had had many adventures there, and had many wonderful memories, starting with the time in 1791 when he had invited Ragnor Fell to join him for a festive sightseeing escape in Lima. It was because Peru was one of his favorite places. It was not just because the posters with a picture of him that were passed around Downworld in Peru were so wildly unflattering.

It was a sad moment in Magnus Bane’s life when he was banned from Peru by the High Council of Peruvian warlocks.

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