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They could hear bells now, as the city’s garrison began responding to the alarm from various stations near the area

‘That won’t last long,’ Bugg predicted

‘Yes, but I a,’ Tehol said ‘The time has come, I think, to see Shand, Hejun and Rissarh on their way’

‘Will they coht expect This is a nervous city The few non-Letherii re subjected to harass their racist underpinnings with all these suspicions and the eagerness to tread over hard-won rights’

‘Proof that the freedoms once accorded non-Letherii peoples were born of both paternalisiven is taken away, just like that’

‘Indeed, Bugg Is it because, do you think, at the huht but liars and cheats?’

‘Probably’

‘With no hope of ever overco our instinctive nastiness?’

‘Hard to say How have we done so far?’

‘That’s not fair Oh, fine, it’s perfectly fair But it doesn’t bode well, does it?’

‘Few things do, lu’

‘Alas, I fear the Tiste Edur won’t be any better Coin is the poison, after all, and it infects indiscriminately’

‘As I suspected,’ Tehol mused, ‘clearly, now is not the time to destroy the econoht, master’

‘Of course I am Furthermore, it seems incu About anything The Rat Catchers’ Guild has done a fine job thus far; we need make no adjustments there I know the details of hat from the Tolls Repository and Shand has acted with impressive facility on that information We know the dire state of the royal treasury You have been paid for your work on the Eternal Domicile, haven’t you?’

‘Just yesterday,I think I’ll go back to bed’

‘Good idea, master’

‘After all, this rooftop is probably the safest place in Letheras now’

‘Indeed Best stay here’