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"Your people are fools, Par’chin, as are you if you think ai You ed unity Your Northern dukes bicker and vie for power even as the abyss opens up before theions Nie does not care about your morals She does not care who is innocent and who is corrupt She does not even care for Her alagai Her goal is to wipe the slate clean

"Your people live on borrowed tiainst the day of Sharak Ka, when your weakness will leave them meat for the Core Then you will have wished for a thousand murders, a thousand thousand, if that’s what it took to prepare you for the fight"

The Par’chin shook his head sadly "You’re like a horse with blinders on, Ahnore the rest Nie doesn’t care because She doesn’t ripping exist"

"Words do notso, Par’chin," Jardir said "Words cannot kill alagai or make Everam cease to be Words alone cannot unite us all for Sharak Ka before it is too late"

"You talk of unity, but you don’t understand theof the word," the Par’chin said "What you call unity I call domination Slavery"

"Unity of purpose, Par’chin," Jardir said "All working toward one goal Ridding the Ala of demonkind"

"There is no unity, if it depends on one man alone to hold it," the Par’chin said "We are all ht will not be so easily cast aside," Jardir said

"No?" Arlen asked "I learnedmy visit to Evera on your people Your dama will not follow Jayan Your Sharum will not follow Asome None of the men will follow Inevera, and your Damaji would as soon kill one another as eat at the same table There is no one who can sit the throne without civil war Your precious unity is about to crumble away like a palace hten His teeth whined as he ground them The Par’chin was correct, of course Inevera was clever and could hold things together for a ti, or his hard-forged arun

"I am not dead yet," Jardir said

"No, but you won’t be returning anytime soon," the Par’chin said

"We shall see, Par’chin" Without warning, Jardir reached out through the crown, Drawing hard on the Par’chin’s uard, the Par’chin’s aura exploded in shock, then distorted as Jardir hauled in the prize

Power rushed through Jardir’s body, knitting es around his chest ripped and the plaster about his legs shattered He sprang fro the roouard up in tiuard, for he had not been trained in Sharik Hora Jardir easily slipped around it and caught him in a subled for air

But then he collapsed into mist, as he had in their battle on the cliff Jardir overbalanced when the resistance ended, but the Par’chin reforht ar hiic-strengthened bones snapped, but the warded glass did not so ic on the surface of the wards, and Jardir instinctively Drew on it, using the power to mend his bones even before the pain set in

The Par’chin vanished fro in close, but Jardir ise to the trick Even as thethe Par’chin’s atte two hard blows before he could led thus for several seconds, the Par’chin disappearing and refore, but unable to strike in turn

"Corespawn it, Ahree," Jardir said, having positioned hile chair at the Par’chin, and predictably, the ed

Your powers arethe open distance to the stairwell