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"Kill you? NiVo down the Red Queen"

"It’s i She’s always one step ahead I wonder if she didn’t tell Imfamnia to come with me to this dirty hole and then flee at the first spine-scrape of the attack I’ to think she wanted me dead"

"All the more reason to join us"

"What are your conditions?"

"Only this Once we are out of this hole and in the air, travel through Ghioz and warn the people that the vengeance of dragons is about to be visited upon them Any ish to surrender should mark their homes and barns and watercraft in soht we can see froht?"

NiVoreat consumers of white paint They use it on all the inner walls of their buildings"

"Paint? Oh, yes, of course, that color-splash Yes, white paint will do Have them mark the rooftop or at least the roofline to indicate their surrender"

"Brave of you I see why they ht with one, I’ll see to it that the renegade hiding in his body is killed as well"

The Copper looked at hiave a brief bow

"I--I will see to it, o

The demen led the Aerial Host to the surface The Copper offered theht

"You are welcome to any caves north of the Star Tunnel," he said to Paskinix and the rest "Or you , but you must accept the Tyr’s word in the Tyr’s tunnel"

"If the Tyr keeps word to us, he’ll find Paskinix a firm ally," Paskinix said

With that they departed back for the deeps

The dragons waited until dusk

NiVom left first The Copper and HeBellereth and Aiy-Yip watched his!" Aiy-Yip squawked

"Tonight," the Copper said

"Why did you let hio to the Queen"

"I don’t think so," the Copper replied "Watch behind him"

A pair of roc-riders dropped out of the clouds and followed NiVoht sky

The Copper nodded "As soon as wehim watched Had we killed hiround They had Imfamnia to follow and now NiVo above these lands"

"My Tyr is clever," HeBellereth said

"We shall see just how clever If the Red Queen felt or saw a few-score deine what the approach of this ht worthy of "

"All the more reason to finish what’s left of the livestock, then," HeBellereth said, and Aiy-Yip ruffled his feathers in agreeht They’d need it to navigate their way to the Queen’s City--the mountains where it lay were a purple smear on the horizon