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"Daelline? Yes, of course she’s alive Why do you ask? Didn’t she arrive?"
"She arrived," Kartane snarled
"I don’t understand," Jorval said, al "She’s the best Healer in the Realm If she--"
"SHE’S THE ONE WHO DID THIS TO ME!"
Jorval’s shocked look was quickly replaced by a sly one "I see Please, co afternoon Perhaps so will help until that bitch isa chair at the table and a quickly filled glass of wine He glared at the other man, who continued to stare at him
"Lord Kartane," Jorval said smoothly, "may I present Lord Hobart? He, too, has reasons to want to see Jaenelle Angelline subdued"
"Not just Jaenelle Angelline," Hobart growled
"Oh?" Kartane said, pushing his anger aside as his interest in Hobart sharpened
"Lord Hobart had controlled the Territory of Glacia for several years," Jorval said "When his niece becarateful bitch EXILED ain control," Kartane said, starting to lose interest
Then Jorval added, "Lady Karla is a close friend of Jaenelle’s"
Kartane randomly selected food from the dishes offered as he nibbled on that bit of inforht then than to hurt a close friend of the bitch "I h Priestess of Hayll"
Not only didn’t Hobart look sufficiently impressed, he looked distinctly uneasy He cleared his throat "It’s a generous offer, Lord Kartane A very generous offer, but"
"But you’re already receiving souessed When Hobart paled, he crossed two fingers and held them up "Perhaps you’re not aware that my mother and the Dark Priestess are like that"
Hobart sed hard Jorval merely drank his wine and watched thelee
"I see," Hobart finally said "In that case, your help is most welcome"
Chapter Nine
1 / Kaeleer
Andulvar settled into a chair in front of Saetan’s blackwood desk "Karla says you’ve been in here sulking for the past two hours, ever since you got a tiht" Andulvar waited "Then whatare you doing?"
Saetan leaned back in his chair "Answer me this: if I were to run away froo and not be found?"
Andulvar scratched his chin "Well, if you wanted to hide from the Dhemlan Queens or the coven, there are quite a few places you could go to ground If you wanted to hide fro, there are a few places in the Dark Realm that would take even Mephis a while to think of But ifJaenelle was looking for you"
"Which is precisely why I’hed "Zhara has summoned me to Amdarh to take care of a problem for her"
Andulvar frowned "Lucivar’s in Aer than the ones who serve in her court, why didn’t she ask hiolden eyes and let the words fall like precisely dropped stones "Lucivar is in Amdarh with Jaenelle"
The silence thickened into a solid curtain
"Ah," Andulvar finally said "Well, Daemon--"
"Is in Aht," Andulvar muttered, then added warily,
"What did Zhara say?" Saetan picked up the e and read in a funereal voice, " ’Your children are having a wonderful tiet them’ "
2 / Kaeleer
Daemon braced his head in his hands and closed his eyes
"Mother Night," Lucivar said, enunciating very carefully
"I’ve never been this drunk," Daemon moaned quietly
Lucivar stared at him with bloodshot eyes "Sure you have"
"Maybe a couple of times in the stupid phase of my youth, but not since I’ve worn the Black My body burns it up too fast to get drunk"
"Not this tihtful, pause, "I’ve been this drunk"
"Really? When?"
"Last ti mistake Should have remembered it Would have, too, if I’d been sober when Idid reave up trying to decipher that co else to think about "I’ve never been thrown out of a city before"