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Last time he had checked, Daniel McGee had been living in the mountains, playing magic music to stave off the evening chill. Now he laid in the sweltering sands of a desert, the merciless sun scorching his bones. Yes, his bones. The last time Dan had checked, he'd had skin. Now he was entirely devoid of flesh, being picked over by vulture harpies. With no way to get back to his old home, the newly skeletonized weather-worker makes friends, puts down roots, and figures out what to do with th...