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‘True,’ the T’lan Iion exists within our memories Before the Imass, there was another people, older, wilder They dhere it arm, and they were tall, their dark skins covered in fine hair These we knew as the Eres Enclaves survived into our time-the time captured within this warren’

‘And they lived in jungles like this one?’

‘Its verges, occasionally, butsavannas They worked in stone, but with less skill than us’

‘Were there bonecasters a them?’

Monok Ochem answered froar For they were the first to carry the spark of awareness, the first so gifted by the spirits’

‘And are they now gone, Monok Oche to that After all, if Monok Ochem found reasons to deceive, Onrack could find none to contradict the bone-caster It did not matter in any case No Eres had ever been discovered in the Warren of Tellann

After a ar asked, ‘Are we close, Onrack?’

‘We are’

‘And e then return to our oorld?’

‘We shall The First Throne lies at the base of a crevasse, beneath a city-’

‘The Tiste Edur,’ Monok Oche the name of that city, Onrack the Broken He already knows too much of our people’

‘What I know of you T’lan Iar said ‘You prefer killing to negotiation You do not hesitate to ods when the opportunity arises And you prefer to clean up your own messes-laudable, this last one Unfortunately, this particular h I suspect you are still too proud to admit to that As for your First Throne, I a its precise location Besides, I’ade kin’

‘That is true,’ Monok Ochereed