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Lifting the necklace, Surreal studied the vial "You asked Jaenelle to create an illusion that I was pregnant with your child?"

She saw his face tighten

Yes, he had asked Jaenelle And it had hurt hie the subject, she pointed to the balls of clay "What are those?"

"The raw spells to create shadows"

Shadows Illusions that could bethe person in front of the at the two empty nests of paper

"Yes," he replied sharply

She hissed at hiood show, but you figuredLucivar would be convin--" Her voice trailed away "He doesn’t know, does he?"

"No," Daes weakened so abruptly, she sat on the floor "Hell’s fire, Mother Night, and may the Darkness betiet everyone out of here In order to make Dorothea and Hekatah believe Marian and Daeht" Surreal rested her forehead on her knees "What’s worth paying a price like this?"

"My Queen needs the time in order to save Kaeleer"

"Oh, shit, Sadi" She looked up at hih you kneas an illusion, how did you keep your stomach down afterward?"

He sed hard "I didn’t"

"You’re mad," she muttered as she climbed to her feet

"I serve," he said sharply

Soht," she said as she hooked her hair behind her pointed ears "What do you need e "It’s dangerous"

"Daemon," she said patiently, "what do you need?" When he still didn’t answer, she took a guess "You wantlike a woman who’s been raped out of her mind and is now terrified of ill happen to her if she ht?"

"Yes," he said faintly

"And then what?"

"Marian and Daeht, pick theo anywhere else Get to the Keep You’ll have to ride the Red Wind The darker ones are unstable"

"Un--Never ht everything through carefully Yes, she could play this out A wo people get glih--and would hide the fact that she had disappeared

Daemon reached for one of the balls of clay

"What’s that for?" Surreal asked

"You would have fought for as long as you could," Dae at her "You would look like you’d fought After I create the illusion, you can carry this and--"

"No" Surreal shrugged out of her jacket and started unbuttoning her shirt "You can’t play all of this out with illusions Not if you want to convince Dorothea and Hekatah long enough to buy the tiive up a great deal for this, Surreal, but I’ to break my vow of fidelity"

"I know," she replied quietly "That’s not what I meant"

"Then whatdid you mean?" Daemon snapped

She took a deep breath to steady herself "You have toin the bowl, Ladvarian placed it carefully on the chamber floor and watched the Arachnian Queen delicately touch the little bubbles now filled with blood and ood, the spider said with approval Goodas kindred

Ladvarian looked at the bowl that sat in front of the huge tangled web There were still a lot of the kindred’s gifts left in the bowl It wasn’t a fast thing the Weaver was doing

You must rest, the spider said as she selected a bubble fros and floated up to a thread in the web All kindredwhen the tih time to add all the memories? Ladvarian asked respectfully

The Weaver of Dreah