The Prisoner of Hulburg

"The Prisoner of Hulburg" is a short story by Richard Lee Byers first published in the 2004 anthology Realms of the Dragons, and reprinted in the 2010 omnibus The Year of Rogue Dragons.

Summary
Pavel Shemov and Will Turnstone are attacked by strange phantoms while sailing towards Hulburg, where they think Sammaster found clues as to the true nature of the Rage of Dragons; once there, they capture a Zhentilar soldier, and learn that the Zhentarim are using the psychic powers of an emerald dragon to monitor the Moonsea. They release the dragon, narrowly surviving their fight; as thanks, the dragon reveals to them that the King-Killer Star is central to the Rage before departing for another plane.

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