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She meant Karla Yes If he could persuade Karla

Wait for the right tione to her oeb The huo to the Keep now and wait Ladvarian looked around oneleft to do The chaled as ready The kindred who belonged to the Lady’s court were gathered on the Arachnians’ island to give their strength to the Weaver’s hen the ti You know this dog?

An i He’s a wolf

Send hi he must learn

18 / Terreille

It was a war camp, not the sort of place he would have looked for Hekatah or Dorothea Around the wide periround every few yards Embedded in the stakes were two crystals, one on each side, spelled so that anything going between them would break their contact with the crystal in the next stake and would alert the guards The cauards, a few sether near the camp’s center, and tooden huts that had heavily barred s and layers of guard spells around them In front of the cabins were six thick wooden stakes that had heavy chains attached to them For prisoners For bait

As soon as he walked past the peri On the journey there, he had thought again about what he was going to do He could kill Hekatah and Dorothea He could unleash the strength of his Black Jewels, destroy everyone in the camp, and take Lucivar, Marian, and Daemonar home But it wouldn’t stop the war Terreille needed to be confronted with a power that would terrify the people sufficiently that they wouldn’tdare fight against it So it always cah for her to unleash her Ebony power and give the Terreilleans a reason to stay in their own Realuards followed him No one approached hihts set on top of tall round at the exact center of the camp Lucivar was chained to the last stake The lash wounds on his chest and thighs had scabbed over and didn’t appear to be deep enough to cause him serious harm There were bruises on his face, but those, too, would cause no perht He hadn’t seen Hekatah in ten years--hardlyas he had And he had known her forbeside her, she had withered so much,decayed so much, he wasn’t really sure it was her until she spoke

"Saetan"

"Hekatah" He walked to the center of the bare ground

"You’ve coain?" Hekatah asked politely

He nodded "A life for a life"

She smiled "Forlives We’ll throw the bitch and the babe into the bargain We don’t really have any use for theive up Daeet a child out of Lucivar or Dae back a darker bloodline

"My life for theirs," he saidEverything has a price

"NO!" Lucivar shouted, struggling against the spelled chains"Kill the Lucivar, he focused on Hekatah "Do we have a bargain?"

"For a chance to see the High Lord huain As soon as you’re restrained, I’ll set the others free I swear it on my word of honor"

They ordered hi, he tossed it on the ground He had put a tight shield around it so that no one could actually touch it If he needed to call it back to hiold

As two guards chained hi of Obedience over his organ

"You look well for soive his naked body a thorough inspection

He s, I can’t say the same about you"

Viciousness twisted Hekatah’s face "It’s tih Lord" She raised her hand at the salee, raised hers

Lucivar had once tried to explain to the boyos why a Ring of Obedience could force a powerful ht he was ready for it

Nothingcould have prepared him for the pain that filled his cock and balls before it spread through his body His nerves were on fire, while agony settled between his legs He couldn’t fight it, could barely think

His sons had endured this, hadfought against Dorothea’s control knowing thatthis aiting after every act of defiance For centuries, they had endured this How could a man not become twisted by this? How

He screa until his body just shut down

19 / Kaeleer

Surreal paced back and forth in Karla’s sitting roorier by the minute She wasn’t sure why she’d chosen to vent her frustrations to Karla Maybe it was because Karla had see that had been happening

All right, that wasn’t fair The wo for her cousin, Morton, not tofro Even so

"The bastard sounded like it was an inconvenience that would interfere with his ed at Karla " ’We’ll see e can accommodate’ Hell’s fire, it’s his father and brother!"