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There were fewer of the beasts, Korlat noted The crossing had claimed hundreds

A shrill hiss fro attention

The Great Raven had half spread her wings, halting directly in front of the warlord ’You still do not grasp the gravity of this! Fool! Ox! Where is Anomander Rake? Tell me! I must speak with him -- warn him-’

’Of what?’ Brood asked ’That a few hundred condors have chased you away?’

’Unknown sorcery hides within those abo deliberately kept away, you brainless thug!’

’From Coral and environs,’ Kallor noted drily ’We’ve just co at a time’

’Stupid! Do you think they’re just sitting on their hands? They’re preparing -’

’Of course they are,’ Kallor drawled, sneering down at the Great Raven ’What of it?’

’What’s happened to Moon’s Spawn? We knohat Rake planned -- has it succeeded? I cannot reach it! I cannot reach him! Where is Moon’s Spawn? ’

No-one spoke

Crone’s head darted down ’You know less than I! Don’t you? All this is bravado! We are lost!’ The Great Raven wheeled to pin Korlat with her glittering, black eyes ’Your Lord has failed, hasn’t he? And taken three-quarters of the Tiste Andii with hih, Korlat? Will you-’

’Crone,’ Brood rumbled ’We’d asked for word on the Malazans, not a list of your fears’

’The Malazans? They ons on the road, dust everywhere Closing on Setta, which is empty but for a handful of sun-withered corpses!’

Kallor grunted ’They’re e of it, then As if in a hurry Warlord, there is deceit here’