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Not for the first time, she wondered at Everaue on the subject

"Fascinating creatures, the clay demons," Abban said A touch of fear rippled across his aura "They blend, you see Their armor is the exact texture and color of Baha’s adobe You can stare right at one--on the steps, clinging to the walls, peeking from the rooftops--and not see it until it s the eyes cannot," Inevera said

Abban nodded "Inevera, I pray it so For the greenlanders in Everam’s Bounty outnumber us six to one They are the adobe, and the chin who seek to strike terror in our hearts with these attacks are clay deain, and shaht save face"

"A then the chin resolve," Inevera mused

"If we do not step carefully, these attacks orsen," Abban said "Seek and kill the true culprits, but every greenlander we harm beyond those who held the torches will be a martyr to their cause"

--They are aided from the north--

Inevera sat vexed on her bed of pillows beside the Andrah as the Darily strode into the throne room Her sons and nephew already waited below theranted entry

She spent close to an hour casting after Abban was dismissed and the runners sent, but that was the only useful bit of inforleaned about the rebels

--They are aided from the north--

It was easy to assuain thelike this, especially if the Par’chin had survived But it was seldom wise to assume more than the dice told The rebels could as easily be supplied and funded by any of the Northland dukes Euchor of Miln, perhaps, or Rhinebeck of Angiers Even Lakton, mostly to the east, was north of Everam’s Bounty, and they had already been warned by Leesha Paper that they would be the next Krasia would conquer Would Duke Reecherd and his dockh to provoke the attack?

No It was the Hollow It had to be, hadn’t it? Or was she letting her hatred of Leesha Paper color her judgment? It would be just like the Northern whore to sht fires behind their backs, and Inevera would welco in her belly

There were tiue hints and riddles, even to Inevera, asin three thousand years The more important the question, the more the ansould shift the course of the future, theher husband’s fate, but the bones told her nothing more than they had in the mountain valley where Ahmann fell, and even that was more than they would tell of the rebels

Perhaps Everam’s plan required the chin rebellion, or a civil war in Krasia, and knowledge of how to steht would run counter to inevera Or perhaps she had displeased Hih

Perhaps the Northern whore’s child is inevera, as well The thought nauseated her She was al her thoughts back into the present

"I have said fro the chin," Daroused "We let theree," Daotten If Qezan and Ichach were agreeing, the sun ht as well rise in the west