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Whatever else Kylar’s tian saw that his friend had learned the way of ruered exactly the questions people would ask Indeed, he’d set up everything so the questions could have only one answer Logan had wondered why Kylar had allowed hiht He had no illusions that it had been because Kylar couldn’t escape Now he saw all the connections that Kylar had known other people would make The first question when someone was assassinated was always, who benefits? When Terah Graesin died, the ansas clearly Logan That wasn’t why Kylar had killed her, though He’d killed her for all of Cenaria’s people, because she would have been a disaster as a queen So Kylar had needed to kill her in a way that freed Logan of suspicion

In a way, Logan had forced Kylar’s hand with the seating arrangements at the coronation The Sterns had been there If Kylar hadn’t been placed so proht have escaped attention, but with too uise would collapse When it collapsed, everyone would have known that Logan’s best friend was in the Sa’kagé--that would be daan be a refores of corruption hiht on everything and force Logan to show decisively where his loyalties lay

Kylar had no doubt what Logan would do, Logan saw that It was the right thing to do It was the only thing to do But Logan had recently lost his father, his mother, his fiancée, and his wife Hoas he supposed to condean re Gorkhy’s death It was the pleasure of power, and he’d felt it again when men had bowed before hi his life so Logan could have power He trusted Logan that an knew he had it in hi to do

His face stony, Logan said, "A pardon is out of the question You were our friend, but our justice will not be swayed Whatever your intentions, even if it was to , you have done murder in this realm Justice de, I derant you a é, what are the naé?"

Kylar sighed and shook his head

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Kylar sat in the darkness and stench of his cell deep into the night

He threw the ka’kari into the corner of the room It bounced eerily noiselessly He extended a hand and willed it back It flew through the air as if on invisible strings and slapped into his palain and this time willed it to h the air and when it hit his palm it squished and went back into his body

He could escape After he died this ti would be different

He heard the sound of so in a distant hallway A door opened, and soon Kylar heard the sound of a big man’s footsteps The face that eventually appeared, however, wasn’t the one he expected

"Lantano Garuwashi," Kylar said, standing and bowing

"Night Angel" Garuwashi bowed equally low "May I co this like a social visit "Please"

Garuwashi unlocked the door and caet here?" Kylar asked

"I asked perel"

"How so?" Kylar asked

"Our duel It was to have been the height of our glory A duel for the ages"

Kylar didn’t knohy, but that Lantano Garuwashi was peeved not to get to fight him five years hence somehoarmed Kylar Perhaps it was the only way Garuwashi had to say that he would have liked to be Kylar’s friend "The Night Angels keep their word," Kylar said "A Night Angel will be there, I promise"

"He will be your equal?"

"He

Garuwashi cracked a smile He sat on the stone shelf opposite Kylar and folded his legs beneath himself Kylar sat similarly on his bunk "I don’t understand Cenarian honor," Lantano Garuwashi said "King Gyre will rule whether you do this or not Why will you die for a people unworthy of you?"