ACROSS THE GALAXY INTO THE HEART OF GODDESS KALI...
("Keep going!")
He managed to run, although his left leg dragged due to the embedded arrow. But the Healer felt no pain from this wound. As he left the temple's bloody anteroom and entered another corridor, his vision suddenly blurred and his equilibrium wavered.
What was that?
("The same knockout punch that separated us on Clutch. Only this time I was ready for it. Now the going gets tough—the goddess has decided to step in.")
He started to run forward again but glanced down and found himself at the edge of a yawning pit. White tentacles, slime-coated and thick as his thighs, sprang out from the walls and reached for him.
"Where'd that come from?" he whispered hoarsely.
("From Kali's mind. It's not real—keep going.") You sure?
("Positive ... I think. Keep going!")
HEALER A Novel of the LaNague Federation
F. PAUL WILSON
Dedicated to Mary
All of the characters in the book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Published by DELL PUBLISHING CO., INC 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York, N.Y. 10017
The first part of this novel appeared in Analog as "Pard," Copyright © 1972 by the Conde Nast Publications Inc. Copyright © 1976 by F. Paul Wilson All rights reserved. For information contact Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, N.Y. 10017. Dell TM 681510, Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
ISBN: 0-440-13569-9
Reprinted by arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc. Printed in the United States of America First Dell printing—June 1977