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‘No, and you’re right, I’h I should have seen it co – he as much as toldto hear, I suppose The Tiste Edur emperor has a Letherii adviser-’

‘Hull Beddict’

‘Yes’

‘You knew him?’

She nodded

‘And now you’re feeling betrayed? Not only as a Letherii, but personally too Well, that’s hard, all right-’

‘But there you are wrong, Iron Bars I don’t feel betrayed, and that’s the problem I understand him all too well, his decision – I understand it’

‘Wish you ith hiar – the emperor – I saw hi, the Warlock King… well, I ht well have thrown in my lot with them But not the emperor…’

‘He came back to life? What do you mean by that?’

‘He was dead Very dead Killed when collecting a sword for Hannan Mosag – a cursed sword of soet it out of his hands’

‘Why didn’t they just cut his hands off?’

‘It was co to that, I suspect, but then he returned’

‘A nice trick Wonder if he’ll be as lucky the next tie of the wood and saw the others seated on the horses and waiting At the Avowed’s coed a smile ‘From the ruain?’

‘Yes, Iron Bars In Trate Some soldier asn’t even from Lether Just stepped up to hiold coins from his body…’