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"So what do we do?" Hasik asked

"You go home to my sister and thank her for the meal she has no doubt prepared you," Jardir said "And when night falls, we go to the tenth layer and pray that Everaai to show the sun"

As always, Inevera aiting for him when he reached his quarters in the Kaji palace Her robe was lowered to uncover the breast where his daughter Anjha suckled Jardir’s sons, Jayan and Aso

Jardir knelt and spread his ar as he lifted theh He set theht of his sons pricked at his serenity for aIt wasn’t just his reputation the Sharu troubles you, ," Jardir said, but Inevera clicked her tongue at him

"I as with ht lashes of his control ease

"The Sharuht," he spat "How uards an en, husband," Inevera said "It ood is that," Jardir said, "if he robs lory?"

"He cannot be allowed to do that," Inevera agreed "You lory in the Maze now more than ever The bones tell lory oes to Everam, if you are to take his place"

"How arowled

Inevera shrugged "Sharak is yours You ht, of course There were so could not advise upon

"The sun will not set for hours," Inevera advised "A bout of love and a short sleep will clear your head"

Jardir smiled and went to her "I will call my mother to take the children"

But Inevera shook her head, stepping away fro arms "Not me The bones say Everalia is ripe If you take her fro son"

Jardir scowled Everalia was his third wife Inevera hadn’t even bothered to show her to hi the Jiwah Sen was selected for her breeder’s hips and the fortune the alagai hora cast, not her beauty

"Always the bones!" Jardir snapped "For once I would bed the wife I choose!"

Inevera shrugged "Take Thalaja if you prefer," she said, referring to his more beautiful second wife "She is ripe as well I sihter"

Jardir gritted his teeth She was the one he wanted, but as Khevat had warned, wife or no, Inevera was da, and he could not simply take her the way he would another woain

Did she really cast the bones for everything? Sometis to get hi yet, and it was true he needed more sons if he was to restore the line of Jardir to its forlory Did it really h fro off his robes

They waited