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"Yes, sir, but I don’t recall mention of any discoveries like this in the Imperial Preserve I know there had been surveys, but"

"I had not written about this because disclosure was not permitted at the time We needed to study the problem further"

"And your conclusions?" Cade asked

"Simply that some poor, brave wretches had entered e know as the Iainst their wills by the king of that time One sees references to ruh I’ve looked tirelessly, I’ve never been able to find definitive docuhed and shook his head "It will be one of those ists, I ian saw realization spread across Cade’s face as he connected the sword to her She was glad Professor Josston had obtained the docuine ould happen if he knew that it did, indeed, exist, and that one of the "poor, brave wretches" stood there beside hiain, that it would lay abandoned forever in the depths of Castle Argenthyne She certainly could not have i it on display in this fashion It was so close All she need do is break the glass case and reach in, but she couldn’t do that No, not now, not even as someone as supposed to be insane They’d just take it away froaze from it, walked determinedly away as if she weren’t very interested In a daze, she drifted past a dog act, a little hted applause of onlookers Both Cade and Dr Silk caught up with her She halted when suddenly confronted with a great gray eagle, its wings outspread, the feathers glistening intop He was er and his talons powerful and sharp enough to deeply score the ray eagle she had once met, but inanilass eyes lacking the fire of life

"Another excellent kill by the emperor," Dr Silk said "It is rather fearsoic, and that his e, past the display, perhaps sensing her sorrow and the fury that had been building toward Amberhill

"Perhaps it is too fearsoies to the lady Perhaps Miss Goodgrave would like to see one of our modern marvels rather than dusty old relics of the past?"

Without waiting for an answer, he once again took Karigan’s ar resolutely at her side Being tugged this way and that by the twoto be Weaponly, but she was tiring of this subordinate role she on which stood parked next to a curtained area A cluster of guests on proclaie trapper?" Cade asked in surprise "I’ve read about i but haven’t seen it done"

"You are a studious boy," Dr Silk said, and Karigan felt Cade bristle beside her at the jibe "Now you may see it for yourself," Dr Silk went on "The process has been simplified, so I believe it will spread across the eerous

"In this case, portraiture"

Hanging froon were small fraentlemen with serious expressions and stiff postures They had not been drawn or painted as far as she could tell She could not identify the medium that had captured such realism

"Would you like to try?" Dr Silk asked her

"Er, try what?"

"Having your portrait hly suspect, still having no idea what the procedure entailed "Won’t it take very long?" And then she gestured at the portraits "And isn’t it just for men?"

"No on both counts It takes less than a entlemen are revealed publicly, as is appropriate You ive it to your uncle to display as he wishes"

"I don’t think--" Cade began

"No, Mr Harlowe," Dr Silk said, forestalling hih the process a few times myself and it is entirely harled with hi and reluctant to comply with Dr Silk’s wishes

"We’ll do you first then, and when you see how easy it is, there shall be no question Now co patrons They moved respectfully out of his way, and the an suspected that propriety co One did not refuse the wishes of one of the e so would have only draanted attention and questions

A ed froon He pushed his specs up on his nose and took in the line that had forht an assistant"