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‘Why don’t we just have Sparhawk take Bhelliom to northern Atan and exterminate the Trolls with it?’
Sparhawk shook his head ‘Bhellioen It won’t obliterate an entire species I know that for certain’
‘You’ve got the rings You could force it to do as you say’
‘No I won’t do that Bhellio to have to be willingly’
‘We can’t just turn the Troll-Gods loose, Sparhawk Ito just sit by and let the Trolls over-run the entire peninsula’
‘We haven’t even talked with the Troll-Gods yet, Stragen,’ Ulath told him ‘Why don’t we see what they have to say before we decide? Novery soon If we don’t, we’re going to start seeing long colu out of their barracks on their way back hoen’s coins ‘You dropped these, Milord,’ she said sweetly Then she frowned ‘Is it hter than the other?’
Stragen looked at her with a slightly sick expression on his face
It was so Sephrenia back to her room They reached the door and stopped
‘Oh, this is absurd!’ Sephrenia suddenly burst out in an exasperated tone of voice ‘Vanion, go get your things and co!’
Vanion blinked ‘I…’
‘Hush!’ she told hilared at Sparhawk ‘And not a word out of you, either!’
‘Me?’
‘You have packing to do, Vanion,’ she said ‘Don’t just stand there gawking’
‘I’ll get right at it’
‘And don’t take all day’ She threw her arms up in the air ‘Men! Do I have to draw pictures for you? I did everything short of lighting signal fires and blowing trumpets, and all you wanted to talk about was the weather – or fish Why wouldn’t you ever get to the point?’
‘Well – I…’ he floundered ‘You were very angry with ry any o have a ith Danae, and I want to see you back in our roolared at him for a moment, and then she spun on her heel and went off down the hall, talking to herself and waving her hands in the air
‘Well, Krager’s back,’ Talen reported as they gathered again later that afternoon ‘One of the beggars saw hian eht be a better word for it, though He was roaring drunk’
‘That’s the Krager we’ve cohed
‘I can’t understand how Zalasta can put any faith in a known drunkard,’ Oscagne said
‘Krager’s very intelligent when he’s sober, your Excellency,’ Sparhawk explained ‘That was the only reason Martel put up with hio back to that lookout near the embassy, Anarae?’
Xanetia started to rise froht now,’ he sht to sober up, so toh I think we’ll want to knohat instructions he brings to the Cynesgan aen added ‘We’ve never really been sure if Krager knows that we’re using crietting help from Platime in Cimmura and that we had contact with thieves and the like in other cities in Eosia, but we should find out if he’s made the connection between the two continents yet’
‘He sort of hinted that he knehen he talked with me after we put down the coup,’ Sparhawk reminded him
‘I don’t want to discard the entire apparatus on the basis of a hint, Sparhawk,’ Stragen said, ‘and I really need to know if he’s aware of the fact that we can use certain cri’
‘I shall probe his mind most closely,’ Xanetia promised
‘Where are Vanion and Sephrenia, Sparhawk?’ Ehlana asked suddenly ‘They should have been here an hour ago’
‘Oh, I’m sorry, dear I meant to tell you about that I excused the important to take care of’
‘Why didn’t you tell ?’
‘They’ve resolved their differences I’d ith’
She flushed slightly ‘Oh,’ she said in a neutral sort of way ‘What finally got theot tired of the estrangement and told Vanion to come back hoed to twist it around so that it was all his fault You kno that goes’
‘That will do, Sir Knight,’ she said firer person knohere Zalasta is right now, Prince Sparhawk?’ Oscagne asked
‘I’m sure he does, your Excellency Zalasta probably doesn’t want hi what he is, and all – but it’s very hard to hide things froer when he’s the least bit sober’
‘He could be enormously valuable to us, Prince Sparhawk Particularly in the light of the Anarae’s special gift’
‘You’d better get all you can froested, ‘because just as soon as ets back frone looked startled
‘It’s a personal thing, your Excellency Krager was involved in the death of our father – around the edges, anyway Khalad wants to do so about that’
‘I’ master’