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In one hand, she held his little finger In the other, she held the knife "You’re going to pay for that," she said in a slurred voice

"No," Dorothea said, stepping forward "You said yourself that we have to keep the dae to a minimum until Jaenelle is contained"

Hekatah turned toward Dorothea Saetan felt sure the sick revulsion on Dorothea’s face would drive Hekatah past any ability to think rationally

"Until Jaenelle is contained," Hekatah said with effort "But that doesn’ttoward hiony froh hi Lucivar’s pain-filled, but still enraged, war cry as Hekatah also punished the son for the deeds of the father produced an agony in him that cut far deeper

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Daeht the small, ornately carved box that had been delivered to the Keep in Terreille Hehad suggested that, since the verbal ift" for Jaenelle, Surreal’s presence wasn’t required She had countered by saying she was fa on as he or Jaenelle did Which, unfortunately, was true

"Do you want me to open it?" he asked Jaenelle when she had just stood there staring at the box for severalCraft, she flipped the lid off the box

The three of theer nestled in a bed of silk--a little finger with a long, black-tinted nail

"Well, sugar, I’d say that e is to the point," Surreal said as she stared at Jaenelle "How et backbefore you do so out of time!"

"Yes," Jaenelle said "It’s tiht Then he looked at her eyes--and couldn’t suppress the shudder They were sapphire ice But behind the ice was a Queen who had been pushed far beyond even the cold ragefor it, because he could descend far enough into the abyss to feel it, he sensed that Hekatah’s little gift had fully awakened the feral side, thedeadly side of Witch She was no longer a young woer as a de the bait laid out by an ene wo with

"Co his arh his shirt and jacket, her hand felt so cold it burned

Careful to keep his eyes and expression bland, he looked at Surreal--and felt a little dismayed by the fury that looked back at hi chilled to the bone, the roo of the rage just underneath the surface, no indication of power being gathered for a strike Nothing

He glanced at the finger again, felt his stomach clench Then he walked out of the rooer in the box Oh, there had been a little flicker of dismay in Sadi’s face when he first saw it, but that had disappeared quickly enough And fro Hell’s fire! She had shown more temper and concern when Aaron had been cornered by Vania! At least then there had been that freezing, terrifying rage But the wo Not a da No reaction at all

Well, fine If that’s the way those tanted to play the game, that was just fineShe wore a Gray Jewel andshe was a skilled assassin There was no reason she couldn’t slip into Terreille and get Lucivar and the High Lord--and Marian and Daemonar--away froettingall of theht, so she’d think about it a little, work up so!

And , she would mention this little incident to Karla to see if the Black Widow still thought there was

By the time Daemon reached her workrooed shards, and he saw so in them that terrified him: cold, undiluted hatred

"What do you expect will happen now?" Jaenelle asked too calmly

Daemon slipped his hands into his trouser pockets to hide the tre er returns to Hayll and reports the delivery of the box It’s al to expect you to be capable of ot a few hours Maybe a little uing with herself Finally she sighed--as if she’d lost the argument-- and looked at hie She said the triangle ether in order to survive, that the other two sides weren’t strong enough without the strength of the mirror--and the mirror would keep themall safe"

"The mirror?" Daemon asked cautiously

"You are your father’s le"

Thea triangle in the palm of his hand, over and over, while she had explained the le

"Father, brother, lover," he le’s center, the one who ruled all three

"Exactly," Jaenelle replied

"You want o to Hayll"