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’Who?’

The voice startled her A man’s voice, muffled, taut with pain

’Who comes?’

She did not kno to answer, and simply spoke the first words that came into her head ’It is I’

’I?’

’A -- a rated harshly ’Another game, then? You’ve no words, Mother You’ve never had therowls, you’ve a hundred thousand wordless sounds to describe your need -- that is your voice and I knoell’

’AI circle my own chain, here init, you think you’ve defeated my last line of defence You think you no all of ine seeing my own face, as if in aeye -- the wrong eye staring back attime to understand, but now I do

’You and your kind played inter Omtose Phellack But you never understood it Not true winter, not the winter that is not sorcery, but born of the cooling earth, the dwindling sun, the shorter days and longer nights The face I see before od’s’

’My child knoolves,’ the Mhybe said

’He does indeed’

’Not he She I have a daughter-’

’Confusing the rules defeats the game, Seer Sloppy-’

’I am not who you think I ahter wishes to see e, not for me No She’s sent wolves after me To rend my soul They hunt my dreams -- but here, I have escaped them I’ve coain ’The Seer has made this my prison And I know it to be so You are the lure of ers’ voices in ht have succeeded, but your rape of od here, Seer, crouched before s bared Not even your dear e him As for your Omtose Phellack -- he would have confronted you at that warren’s gate long ago He would have denied it to you, Jaghut To all of you But he was lost Lost And know this, I arowing aware, Seer’