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Chapter one Summons of the ScorpionOnce before I had been flung out of paradise. Now as I tried to gather up the broken threads of my life on this Earth, I, Dray Prescot, realized how useless mere pretense was. Everything I held dear, all I wanted of hope or happiness, still existed on Kregen under the Suns of Scorpio. There, I knew, my Delia waited for me. Delia! My Delia of the Blue Mountains, my Delia of Delphond — for the Star Lords had contemptuously thrust me back to Earth before Delia could become Delia of Strombor. There on Kregen beneath Antares all I desired was denied to me here on Earth. My return to this Earth brought me one unexpected experience. Peace had broken out. Since the age of eighteen I had known nothing but war, apart from that brief and abortive period of the