Hazard

A novelette of 10,000 words, sequel to the Sun Wolf and Starhawk series. When the lovely Mira visits the hermitage of the local wizard, the former barbarian mercenary Sun Wolf, to beg his help in rescuing her sweetheart from a traveling mage, Sun Wolf suspects that this is a trap set for him. In his duel with the enemy wizard, Sun Wolf is not only ignorant of how much magical technique his opponent knows, but is fairly certain that if he, Sun Wolf, uses magic at all, his own soul will be en...