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‘Scabandari is in no condition to free anyone,’ Osserc replied, ‘including himself’

The tomen were clearly startled by this After a ed that?’

The ed ‘Does it ods had not the power to oppose hihters speculatively, and said, ‘Heed that as a warning, my dears Mother Dark’s first children were spaithout need of any sire And, despite what Anoht claim, they were not Tiste Andii’

‘We did not know this,’ Menandore said

‘Well, now you do Tread softly, children’

Udinaas watched the tall figure walk away, then the slave gasped as Osserc’s forlittering gold and silver scales rippling as wings spread wide A surge of power, and the enoron was in the air

Sukul Ankhadu and Menandore stared after hi eone

Sukul grunted, then said, ‘I’m surprised Ano binds the about I aht be so far siaht smile ‘And the pleasure would pale indeed were one to kill the other outright’

Menandore’s eyes fell to the motionless for this world’s gods, did she not?’

‘For a ti two horrid little children’

‘Horrid? Daughters, then’

Sukul nodded ‘And their father saw that clearly enough from the very start, for he named them appropriately’

‘Oh? And ere those names, sister?’

‘Envy and Spite’

Menandore s him one day’

‘It is possible he would object to e plan to do with Sheltatha Lore Indeed, it is possible that even now he seeks our trail, so that he ly, as Osserc is wont to say, we should make haste’

Udinaas watched as the to their unconscious cousin where she lay

Menandore faced her sister across the distance ‘Sheltatha’s lover That god – what is his name?’