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Dragonlance -- Margaret Weis And Tracy Hickman (Eds.) - Tales I, Vol. Ii - Kender, Gully Dwarves, And Gnomes
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. The snow fell away. Under the warmth of his
hands the ice melted from the rabbit's back.
"There," he whispered, amazed. He turned the rabbit
back toward the door. "Off with you."
But the rabbit did not, as Flint had expected, dart away
in fear. It paused in the doorway, seemed for a moment to
consider the storm, and turned, bounding back past Flint
and into the shelter. Flint saw it scamper into the shadows
behind him and vanish into the darkness. Tas, still bent over
his pipe, looked up only briefly to laugh.
Puzzled, Flint turned back to the door and gasped.
Looming like some dream beast was a rough-coated
mountain goat. To the left of the goat, its antlers heavy with
snow, a dark-eyed deer waited.
Dipping its antlers - courteous beast, Flint thought and so
thinking abandoned his sense and logic - the deer stepped
into the shelter. The goat, as though hanging back to await
the passage of mountain royal ty, entered last.
Nothing Flint had ever seen was brighter than the delight
shining in Tas's eyes. His pipe still in hand, the kender
leaped to his feet, ducked around the deer, patted the goat,
and scurried to the door.
"Flint! Look! Do you see? I brought them here!"
Flint shook his head
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