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Swan's Braid

Tanya Huff

First published April 1996
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Magdelene and Terizan › Terizan

Synopsis

The creation story for Terazin, who was just the thief-contrivance for this story, but evolved on her own. <P> When Terazin tries to join the Thieves' Guild her entrance "fee" is to steal the life-braid of Swan, the mercenary Captain who has just defeated the most powerful bandit-horde in the land. Even though she wasn't supposed to.

Publications (6)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 1996 Cover Swords of the Rainbow Alyson Anthology 33
1999 Stealing Magic: The Complete Adventures of Magdelene and Terazin Tesseract Books Collection
October 1999 Cover Stealing Magic: The Complete Adventures of Magdelene and Terazin Tesseract Books Collection 127
August 2003 Cover Relative Magic Meisha Merlin Collection 229
November 2005 Cover Stealing Magic Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Collection 1b
May 2013 Cover Swan's Braid & Other Tales of Terizan JABberwocky Literary Agency Collection