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Broey shook his head froesture

"Share the rule? I&039;m astonished at you, Gar"

"Your astonishment hasn&039;t reached its limits You don&039;t knohat I&039;ve really done"

"Which is?"

"Shall we retire to a more private place and discuss it?"

Broey looked around at his aides, waved for them to leave

"We will talk here"

Gar waited until he heard the door close behind hi aides

"You probably know about the death fanatics we&039;ve groomed in the Human enclaves"

"We are prepared to deal with thereat secrets, Broey"

"No doubt Are you now going to reveal such a secret?"

"For years now,and exporting their surplus rations to the Riatons of food out there With a whole planet in which to hide it, you&039;ll never find it City food, every bit of it and ill"

"Another city!"

"More than that Every weapon the city of Chu has, we have"

Broey&039;s ventricle lips went aler

"So you never really left the Riet"

"After all that Chu has done for you"

"I&039;lad you didn&039;t ave us a mandate!"

"Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even ment and rule absolutely"

"That&039;s not what I meant" Broey breathed deeply several times to restore his calm "One city and only one city That is our mandate"

"But the other city will be built"

"Will it?"

"We&039;ve dug in the factories to provide our oeapons and food If you ainst our people inside Chu, we&039;ll come at you from the outside, shatter your walls and"

"What do you propose?"

"Open cooperation for a separation of the species, one city for Gowachin, one for Human What you do in Chu will be your own business then, but I&039;ll tell you that we of the new city will rid ourselves of the DemoPol and its aristocracy"

"You&039;d create another aristocracy?"

"Perhaps But my people will die for the vision of freedoer provide our bodies for Chu!"

"So that&039;s why your fanatics are all Rim-born"

"I see that you don&039;t yet understand, Broey My people are not er, to die for their vision"

Broey considered this It was a difficult concept for a Gowachin, whose Graluz guilt was always transformed into a profound respect for the survival drive But he sahere Gar&039;s words e in histhemselves onto all opposition without inhibitions about pain, death, or survival in any respect They ht very well capture Chu The idea that countless Rirants lived within Chu&039;s walls in readiness for such sacrifice filled hi self-control to conceal this reaction He did not for an instant doubt Gar&039;s story It was just the kind of thing this dry-fleshed Ri this now?

"Did Jedrik order you to prepare me for"

"Jedrik isn&039;t part of our plan She coniting is just the sort of thing we can exploit better than you"

Broey weighed this hat he knew about Gar, found it valid as far as it went, but it still did not answer the basic question

"Why?"

"I&039;m not ready to sacrificeof partial truth Gar had shown many times that he couldhis fanatic hordes there doubtless were certain skills he&039;d prefer not losing - not yet Yes, that was the way Gar&039;s mind worked And Gar would know the profound respect for life whichfrenzy Gowachin, too, could uilt Gar counted on the guilt Perhaps he counted too much

"Surely, you don&039;t expect me to take an open and active part in your Rim city project?"

"If not open, then passive"

"And you insist on sharing the rule of Chu?"

"For the interim"

"Impossible!"

"In substance if not in name"

"You have been my advisor"

"Will you precipitate violence between us with Jedrik standing there to pick up whatever she can gain from us?"

"Ahhhhhh" Broey nodded

So that was it! Gar was not part of this Jedrik thing Gar was afraid of Jedrik, ave Broey cause for caution Gar was not easily made fearful What did he know of this Jedrik that Broey did not know? But now there was a sufficient reason for compromise The unanswered questions could be answered later

"You will continue as my chief advisor," Broey said

It was acceptable Gar signified his consent by a curt nod

The coestive nodes, though Gar knew he&039;d been manipulated to reveal his fear of Jedrik Gar could be certain that Broey would try to neutralize the Rinitude of Gar&039;s plotting went far beyond expectations, leaving too many unknowns One could not make accurate decisions with insufficient data Gar had given away infore That was not like Gar Or was that a correct interpretation of what&039;d happened here? Broey knew he had to explore this, risking one piece of accurate information as bait

"There&039;s been a recent increase of mystical experiences by Gowachin in the Warrens"

"You know better than to try that religious nonsense on ry

Broey concealed his amusement Gar did not know then (or did not accept) that the God of the Veil sometimes created illusions in his flock, that God spoke truly to his anointed and would even answer some questions

Much had been revealed here, ht And Jedrik would know about Gar&039;s Rim city It was possible that Jedrik wanted Broey to know and hadthe plot If Gar saw this, that would be enough to make him fearful

Why didn&039;t the God reveal this totested?

Yes, that had to be the answer, because there was one thing certain now:

This time, I&039;ll do what the God advises