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"They reduce rowled, his eyes burning with a terrible anger "Why has this cesspool not been cleansed?"

"It was once," Barak said gri, the Alorns came down here and killed every Nyissan they could find"

"Their nu around

Barak shrugged "It was thirteen hundred years ago Even a single pair of rats could reestablish their species in that length of tiasped suddenly and averted his eyes, blushing furiously

A Nyissan lady had just stepped froreen goas so flimsy that it was nearly transparent and left very little to the iination "Don't look at her, Garion," Durnik whispered hoarsely, still blushing "She's a wicked wohtful frown "Maybe we should have left Durnik and Garion on the ship"

"Why's she dressed like that?" Garion asked, watching the nearly nude woman

"Undressed, you e

"It's the custom," Aunt Pol explained "It has to do with the climate There are soo into those just now All Nyissan wo the worins appreciative

"Never mind," Aunt Pol told the against a wall, staring at his hand and giggling senselessly "I can see right through h them"

"Drunk?" Hettar asked

"Not exactly," Aunt Pol answered "Nyissans have peculiar aet modified It's a bitAlorns"

Another Nyissan shaait curiously jerky and his expression blank

"Doth this condition prevail widely?" Mandorallen asked

"I've never ed," Aunt Pol said "It makes the for?" She pointed at a solid building across the street

There was an ominous rue house A Drasnian servant in a linen tunic answered their knock, let thehted antechamber, and told them to wait

"An evil city," Hettar said quietly "I can't see why any Alorn in his right ly"

"Money," Captain Greldik replied shortly "The Nyissan trade is very profitable"

"There are s than money," Hettar muttered

An enorht," he snapped at his servant "You didn't have to leave them here in the dark"