Changing of the Guard

Immortal, unchanging, the external survivor, Nathan Brazil had tired of his long duty as the guardian of the Well World and had enlisted Mavra Chang, space pilot and adventurer, as his companion and equal, sharing with her some of his power to control the universe's destiny.

But over the millennia, Brazil and Chang had become estranged, and when they were once again called to the Well, each went alone.  What they found was a Well World changed in ways it should not have been. It was not just that the local inhabitants had put a price on their heads or that Brazil and Chang were constantly symied in their separate journeys to the Well of Souls.  Evolution itself had diverged from its preset course - and that was impossible.

Brail sensed that some force beyond local animosity was at work, thwarting him from reaching his goal, and he was determined to find out just what that force was and how it could have changed the elaborate programming of the Well.  But the changes that had so affected the Well World were beginning to change the unchangeable Nathan Brazil - and if the watchman himself could altered, the universe might be left without any guardian at all...

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