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AuRon regretted losing the aood look at you, they wouldn’t know if you were aging or not, sick or not, or if perhaps you’d been replaced by another He’d been told in his visit to the East that soon-chambers, to make assassination ht knohether their actual ruler or so was on his way
"You believe in simplicity, Great Queen?"
"Life for us is co a move sometimes take days or weeks, so we must keep the rest of our life as spare as possible But we still lad you could see that fountain, AuRon We often pause by it and remind ourselves of the rises and falls of nations before Ghioz Civilization building is long, weary work I’ve raised a city of polished marble where once there were mud-and-straw huts"
"Are you a sorcerer who can turn air into stone?"
"Not that kind of sorcerer Anklamere’s as a cheat But we do know the secret of creation The creation of anything is an act of will and allery in the mountain-face, much better lit than the one above Her footfalls on the stairs were so light he wondered if he iuessed was the statue’sand canvas in the way, but without the working equip view
"Those trees down there, obviously they exist in the physical world But isn’t our concept of those trees flexible? The architecture of the iination, as that dwarf put it It’s called the Queen’s Wood, so the trees are ours We can i cut down andfor another statue There is enormous power in audacity Your little ‘Isle of Ice’--as we believe it’s called on the Hypatian maps We could just as easily naovernor The world entire belongs to us in our i in the details"
AuRon wondered if she’d already sold the island to a would-be titleor
"There are those ould dispute my claim," AuRon said "And yours, Great Queen"
Apparently, it never hurt to imitate DharSii’s ment of the compliment
"Oh, we can outwait them We can afford to be patient If no other solution presents itself, we sions live a long tion The Red Queen is eternal"
"You pass the title down to your daughter along with your beliefs?"
"Nothing so mundane We simply can’t be bothered to die Too much undone in this world Your wizard and un"
"He was hardly retted his life, not his death"
She spun theface "Be careful, AuRon son of AuRel Make an enemy of us and you make an enemy forever"
"Was he some titleor of yours, Great Queen?"
"No The circle of nize the value of elves, dwarves--even blighters We are happy to stae here after his fall we took the that Man’s First Destiny nonsense, we had their heads struck off Little loss
"We find our greatest challenge is in finding worthy intelligences to be our titleors Oh, plenty want the title, but few the labor that goes with it Then there are those who are diligent but require constant instruction or who are too hidebound by the teachings of their temples to do what is necessary to be effective"
"How do you on Coin and goods of value I learned long ago thatfor coin: fair words, professions of love, promises of loyalty, sad stories, flattery, tears--yes, they will offer up all that, rivers of it, raging torrents, and all of it gathered together weighs as s a chest of coin who has the ability to rise"