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‘A brilliant plan’

‘I just thought it up’

‘I like it very much Well done, Kalam’

‘Like I’ve always told you, Quick, I ain’t just a pretty face’

The tung about and, ignoring the shadows pouring out of the burgeoning shattered warren of Kurald Emurlahn, returned to where they had left Korbolo Dom

‘ Friend? ’

Heboric stared at the four-eyed, squat demon that had leapt onto the path in front of him ‘If we’d met, demon, I’m sure I would have remembered it’

‘ Helpful explanation Brother to L’oric He lies in clearing twelve paces to your left Hesitant revision Fifteen paces Your legs are nearly as short as mine ’

‘Take me to him’

The demon did not move ‘ Friend ?’

‘More or less We share certain flaws’

The creature shrugged ‘ With reservations Follow ’

Heboric set off into the petrified forest after the sha as it prattled on

‘ A priest with the hands of a tiger Soreen I I would have trouble tearing out your throat, I think Even driven by hunger, as I always aht, this one Ghosts, assassins, warrens, silent battles Does no-one in this world ever sleep? ’

They stu

L’oric’s arh, seated cross-legged, his eyes closed, his breathing steady On the dusty ground before hi, Heboric settled down opposite the High Mage ‘Didn’t know you played with those’

‘I never do,’ L’oric replied in a murmur ‘Play, that is A Master has come to the Deck, and that Master has just sanctioned the House of Chains’

Heboric’s eyes widened Then narrowed, and he slowly nodded ‘Let the gods rail, he or she had to do just that’

‘I know The Crippled God is now as bound as is every other god’

‘In the ga outside it I wonder if he’ll one day coh his chances are less now than they were at sunset’