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She stepped back ‘Finadd Gerun Eberict, I want nothing to do with your world And so you need not wait for iven it’

‘As you like, but know that I will think no less of you when you change your mind’

‘I won’t’

He turned away ‘Everyone has to work to eat, lass See you in Letheras’

Udinaas had stood quietly in the glooation His fellow Letherii had not marked his presence And, had they done so, it would not have e After the disation and the Acquitor’s departure, Rhulad had beckoned Hull Beddict closer

‘You swear your fealty to us,’ the e each word before it escaped his led lips

‘I know the details you need, Earrison, every frontier encampment I know their tactics, the manner in which armies are arrayed for battle The way sorcery is employed I knohere the food and water caches are hidden – these are the military repositories, and they are massive’

Rhulad leaned forward ‘You would betray your own people Why?’

‘Vengeance,’ Hull Beddict replied

The word chilled Udinaas

‘Sire,’ Hull continued, ‘ awaited an opportunity such as this one’

‘And so, vengeance A worthy senti else left for hty Letherii fleet take to the waves to challenge us?’

‘No, I don’t think so Not at first, anyway’

‘And their armies?’