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"I’ as fast as he could while helpingwas talking with so to help him deal with a situation So grim on Campiaa for the moment I thinkinaway i and Arvil needed soot the idea that Arvil’s four re wizards were i that they’d be too frightened to do anything after Delvin and Carthin were killed

"Reah, everything will be fine, sweetheart" Teeg rose fro with Arvil Both of theht before my eyes

"Reah, sit down and eat," Astralan ordered as soon as his brother had taken Teeg away Nenzi gave me a swift look and he and I sat down to eat The reptanoids and I were stuck on Zephili with Wilffox and Wilffin Hardlow, plus three of their four warlocks I had no idea how that was going to end, which leftcold

Vice-Director, Tory and I are on Ca, Reah’s otherto Arvil killed his assistant and tried to get into Arvil’s ot one of theot away Ry was sending mindspeech to Lendill after a very busy and stressful afternoon

Where are the other three wizards and where is Reah? Lendill’s voice seemed more concerned than usual

We think the other three are holed up in one of Arvil’s casinos down the street--the situation is soe When Teeg gets here, we’re supposed to go down there and take care of this Reah is still on Zephili with the Hardlows and three of their warlocks

Reah is with the Hardlows? Alone?

Yes

I’ll send mindspeech to her Lendill cut off co over Reah, that’s why Ry had contacted Lendill to begin with Ry and Tory both were belting on an assortuards to do battle with Arvil’s three re wizards

He said he’d send ot here with Stellan Ry led the way out of his and Tory’s quarters

"If you’ll provide the distraction; none of these can carry themselves away, they don’t hold the skills," Stellan said to those gathered around the kitchen island in Arvil’s palace, "then I can get in there and take care of the elsewhere"

"They can throw blasts at us," Arvil appeared grie while we shoot"

"What about the guests?" Ry asked

"Fuck the guests," Arvil growled "They know Caet inside froet in his way; I’ll go through the hatch in the roof I have a key, after all," Teeg pulled an electronic key froers "This fits all the es, in case the builders and et in Those three only think they have all the keys" Teeg’s srimly determined He also patted the ranos pistol he had stuck in his belt "Between Stellan and me, I think we can take them out if they’re focused on your frontal assault"

"They stole the keys to the eh brain cells between the three wizards to even think of that Of course, the one he’d killed couldn’t fathorabbed hilassfrom Arvil’s office on the third floor

"The stole all the keys except the one Teeg holds when they broke into ot the codes to all the accounts froot that stopped before they could get toocode, after all They were hoping I wouldn’t discover this treachery until they were far fro at the station It’s too bad Tory, Ry and I got back sooner than they expected froency was hatched out by thee on his ranos pistol before ja asked They nodded "Let’s go," he said and Stellan folded them to the casino down the street

Reah? Lendill’s voice ca for bed

Vice-Director? I know, my mental voice sounded sullen I wasn’t in the best of in to describe how I felt