This story was first published in
Companion in Zeor #5, senior editor Karen Litman. This online version was scanned and OCRd from the typewritten original and then reformatted for the web. Scanned by Ronnie Bob Whitaker, converted to HTML by Mike Giroux
The Sime~Gen universe was created by Jacqueline Lichtenberg. This story or its setting may not be reused without her explicit permission. This story copyright © 1980, 1997 by Jacqueline Lichtenberg. All rights reserved.
nd it was in the Age
of Chaos that the Lady Mariose, wife of the Lord Lothair of the
family of Cornwallis saw her last born and only surviving son
brought to the bed of leather and chains to die in changeover.
And she did arm herself with a sword and drove all others from
the room and barred the door that none might enter. And Lord
Lothair said, "Let it be as she wills, for if she dies then my
son dies also." But it was she who unbarred the door and they
were both alive. And she said to all of those assembled that it
had been proved that Sime and Gen could live together without
fear. And she called upon her husband and the family of the
Cornwallis to lead all the others of the land to make it so. And
they took up the charge that she laid upon them and carried it
throughout the land. And so it came to pass that on this island
Sime and Gen lived in harmony, holding the borders and coasts of
their lands closed to all others, for outside the island there
was still unrest.
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Companion in Zeor #5Last modified on 29 June 97 at 1800