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She heard asand far,’ she said

‘Only to findstill, here before a sickly fire I am not so foolish as to be unaware of runted behind them ‘Would those be crimes already committed, or those to come, Buruk the Pale?’

‘The distinction is without htening hi Are you both ready?’

‘The for portends, Buruk The Warlock King intends to , which we are expected to deliver to the delegation when it arrives’

‘Intentions are similarly without relevance, Acquitor I am without expectations, whereas one of us three is consu else Rehearsed statements, dire pronounceard Hull Beddict ‘You still think like a child, don’t you? Clay figurines sunk to their ankles in the sand, one here, one there, standing just so One says this, the other says that, then you reach down and rearrange thely Scenes, vistas, stark with certainty Poor Hull Beddict, who took a knife to his heart so long ago that he twists daily to confirm it’s still there’

‘If you would see rowl, ‘that is your error, not ,’ thechildren’

Buruk then gestured them to follow andin step beside Hull – with the merchant a half-dozen paces ahead, barely visible in the dark – Seren asked, ‘Have you uest here before, Seren’

‘Of the Warlock King’s?’

‘No, of the Sengar household Close to the royal blood, the eldest son, Fear Sengar, is Hannan Mosag’s Marshal of War – not his actual title, but it serves well as translation’

Seren considered this for a moment, then frowned and said, ‘You anticipate, then, that friends will be present tonight’

‘I had, but it is not to be None of the Sengar barring the patriarch, Toe The sons have left’

‘Left? Where?’

Hull shook his head ‘I don’t know It is… odd I have to assume Fear and his brothers will be back in ti aware of the blood-ties you have bound with Binadas Sengar?’