School of Light
 PERFECTION
IS A DANGEROUS ILLUSION
Where does your mind go when you fall asleep.
To the Dreamland, where seven Sleepers dream the ever-changing
landscape drawn by trillions of sleeping minds from the Waking World.
Where form follows function, so a hovel today may be a castle or a cave
tomorrow. Where the people battle nightmares with only the strength of
their will and sanity.
Juele is the youngest and most promising new student to enter the
strange new world of the School of Light. At this legendary institution,
she will learn how to master illusion, the highest form of art in the
Dreamland. Her talent has excited the interest of many of the senior
students, the professors, but most important of all, the Idealists. They
are the elite of the Illusionists, a tightly knit group of talents who
admit Juele to their mysterious circle in the Ivory Tower.
Her mentor, an Idealist named Rutaro, has embarked upon a project to
surround the Castle of Dreams with an image of perfection, in which
Juele will play a key role. But other students who are jealous of
Juele's good fortune set out to pervert Rutaro's design. What they have
in mind bears no resemblance to reality. The worst part is that no one,
not Rutaro, nor the King, the ministers, or even Roan, the King's
Investigator, seems to notice that the government of the Dreamland is
plunging into deadly chaos. Juele is faced with having to find the
reality within the fantasy with the only skill she has at hand:
illusion.
Cover art by Pat Turner
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and
events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real
people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, June 1999
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN: 0-671-57816-2
Copyright © 1999 by Jody Lynn Nye
All rights reserved, including the right to
reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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