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SOMETHING M.Y.T.H. INC.

Prologue.Like wildfire, word spread throughout the land . . .

from town to village, from peddlar to peasant. . .

that their once idyllic kingdom was now under the control of a mighty magician who held the Queen in thrall Though it was customary for the common folk to pay little attention to who it was that ruled them, much less the antics and machinations of palace politics, this time it was different.

It was clear to even a casual observer that the magician dabbled in the Black Arts. He openly associated with and sought counsel from de- mons, who even now roamed the corridors of the palace. As further evidence of his other-worldly nature and preferences, the magician kept a fierce dragon as a pet . . . a rarity that even the ani- mal-loving ecologists of the land found disquiet-