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Jardir nodded "Is it intact?"

Enkaji stood, sweeping his arus, the stone lid of which had been re well, I’, of course, but you have reclais worn by the skeleton within "If ever these scraps were the sacred Cloak of Kaji, I cannot say"

"And the crown?" Jardir asked as if the iteed "Taken The Par’chin--"

"Didn’t have it with him when he came to the Desert Spear," Jardir cut him off

"He ," Abban whispered in Jardir’s ear

"How do you know?" Jardir asked

"Trust a liar to know," Abban said

Jardir turned to Hasik "Seal the tonaled the Sharureat stone back into place

"What is this?" Enkaji asked as the torchlight fro torches ensconced in the toht

"Put them out," Jardir ordered "The Damajah will cast the bones to learn who has stolen Kaji’s crown"

Enkaji paled, and Jardir knew then that Abban had spoken truth He advanced on the Da him up until his back struck the tomb wall

"For every minute that the crown is not in my hands," he prorandsons, starting with the eldest"

Moments later Jardir held the Crown of Kaji, found in the burial charandsons

It was a thin circlet of gold and jewels, worked into a pattern of unknoards that formed a net around the wearer’s head It seehtest bend in the gold

Inevera bowed and took the crown, slipping it over his turban Though light as a feather, Jardir nevertheless felt a great weight lay upon hireen lands," he said

SECTION 2

OUTSIDE FORCES

CHAPTER 12

WITCHES

333 AR WINTER

LEESHA’S PARENTS’ HOME CAME into sight It was aher father’s ainst the back wall of her father’s paper shop The path leading to the front door arded