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He stopped besideresonance in the air, and there surely would have been had these stones – positioned as they are on a major ley-line intersection – been used"

I frowned "So where the hell is she? I mean, she has to knoe’re onto her now You’d think her first port of call would be these stones and the gray fields Surely she’d want that gate opened before we could stop her"

"That is presulanced at hiateway?"

"Because, in many respects, it would ed me over to the far wall, away froht of anyone who ht enter Not that, I suspected, he actually expected anyone to enter

"Why? I ates that size" – I waved a hand toward the two stones – "has to take a lot of power, even if it is standing in the middle of a ley-line intersection"

"Yes, but does it not see very easily? It’s not as if a great deal was done to conceal its presence"

I frowned "Well, it wasn’t exactly easy I mean, the paper trail alone was hell --"

"Yes, but if she really wanted to hide it, she could have done so ically Also, neither Ilianna nor the witches could find any great energy output co froainst the wall, even thoughother than just sit here "Which was explained by so any visible output"

"Perhaps" He half shrugged, but his expression suggested he wasn’t buying it "It also occurs toeven the ht of Lucian was distasteful – "was never one to leave anything to chance His actions in trying to inate you, Ilianna, and indeed the sorceress herself were indication enough of that He would not be foolish enough to rely on only one entrance to the fields"

Especially when he’d had centuries to plot every little detail of his revenge on both the Raziq and ht-line things You know, point A to point B with no offshoots or detours And there’s only one gate here"

"Yes, but a ley-line intersection holds enough power to create ray fields, so ould they not do so? The Aedh undoubtedly knew enough about y down lesser lines I cannot believe he would not have done so, especially given he knew – at least from the moment he became involved with you – that both your father and the Raziq ell aware of his presence"

"And doing fucking nothing about it," I muttered

"They did not see him as a threat In their eyes, he was lesser than he was, and therefore uniht had cost theht yet cost us the second

Although to be fair, Azriel, at least, had seen Lucian’s true colors froateway, surely the Raziq would be watching both," I said "They want to stop this bitch – or bastard, depending on which for – as ateway is in the one place no one would ever think to look?"

"But there’s nowhere --" I paused, suddenly realizing what he was i "Surely even Lucian wouldn’t be that devious"

"Why not? Are not the quarters he shared with your father as his chrání the perfect position for such a gateway? Your father cannot enter the te the Raziq to his presence, and the Raziq cannot enter your father’s rooiven they do not think the Aedh a threat"

"I wonder if that’s the reason he left the coordinates of that warehouse It wasn’t so much the coordinates here on Earth thaton the fields"

"It is possible, although that would ateway soo investigate --"

He caught my hand "It would be useless to do so because we have not the et in or out of your father’s rooateway, it will take us into them"

"Yes, but the private residences of the Aedh within the teet in or out without the correctbe simple in this damn quest?"

"Because that is not the way of your world or e "However, your father said he was creating a means by which you could freely access his roo has been left at your hoh the daone"