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Spirits below! This Captain Paran was Tattersail’s lover -- I should have anticipated soroohter-’

’We havethe bhederin north -- do you recall? The soldier who defied our lances? I knew then -- I knew hiain ’Paran knows Send him word that I am here Please’

’Very well, lass’ Whiskeyjack raised his head and studied the Barghast enca … in any case The captain now commands them I am sure that Quick Ben and Mallet will be pleased to make your reacquaintance-’

’You wish them to examine me, you mean,’ Silverfox said, ’to help you decide whether I am worthy of your support Fear not, Commander, the prospect does not concern me -- in many ways I remain a mystery to myself, as well, and so I am curious as to what they will discover’

Whiskeyjack smiled wryly ’You’ve the sorceress’s blunt honesty, lass -- if not her occasional tact’

Korlat spoke ’Cos to discuss, you and I’

’Aye,’ he said

The Tiste Andii turned to the Mhybe and Silverfox ’We shall take our leave of you two, now’

’Of course,’ the old wo to master her emotions The soldier who defied our lances -- oh yes, I recall, child Old questions finally answered and a thousand , Silverfox, it’s ti in the ways of the Rhivi’

’Yes, Mother’

Whiskeyjack watched the two Rhivi walk away ’She revealed far too , drawing the bindings closer… then the child spoke…’

’Yes,’ Korlat e -- the knowledge of the T’lan I millennia on this world So much that those people witnessed … the Fall of the Crippled God, the arrival of the Tiste Andii, the last flight of the Dragons into Starvald De over her eyes