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‘There are, I believe, six renegades,’ Onrack said ‘And one a them is a bonecaster Monok Oche them, we are too few…’

‘At least let army own kin, after all’

Ibra Gholan spoke ‘Tiste Edur, what is your weapon of choice?’

‘Spear I am fair with a boell, but for combat… spear’

‘I will acquire one for you,’ the clan leader said ‘And a boell Yet I a the cache you but recently departed Why did you not avail yourself of a weapon at that tiar’s reply was low and cool ‘I am not a thief’

The clan leader faced Onrack, then said, ‘You chose well, Onrack the Broken’

I know‘Monok Ocheht be?’

‘Tenag Ilbaie,’ Monok Ochem immediately replied ‘It is likely he has chosen a new naros is certain?’

‘All others are accounted for, barring Kilava Onas’

Who reades‘Born of Ban Raile’s clan, a tenag Soletaken Before he was chosen as the clan’s bonecaster, he was known as Haran ’Alle, birthed as he was in the Su the Caribou He was a loyal bonecaster-’

‘Until he failed against the Forkrul Assail in the Laederon Wars,’ Monok Ochem cut in

‘As we in turn fail,’ Onrack rasped

‘What do you mean?’ Monok Ochem demanded ‘In ay have we failed?’

‘We chose to see failure as disloyalty, Bonecaster Yet in our harsh judgement of fallen kin, we co Ilbaie strove to succeed in his task His defeat was not by choice Tell me, when have we ever triu Ilbaie was doo Yet he accepted as co full well he would be destroyed and so condeh you shall say to Logros and all the T’lan I’