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As they finished, he lifted his gaze once more and scanned the crowd He saw Momma K, and Count Drake He saw the Chantry’s a that this "Night Angel" would do soht aan’s reaction than Kylar’s suffering He saw the wo silently He saw faces he had known from the Warrens, tavern keepers and whores and thieves and an herbalist He saw nobles Kylar Stern had rubbed shoulders with and been ignored by

Then Logan gave a signal, and the wheel rattled backward and settled doater lapping over Kylar’s feet

Oh, yes, now Kylar remembered, there were more than tays to die on the wheel The wheel itself was perpendicular to the flow of the Plith; it used the river’s current to turn it When Kylar was turned upside down, his head would dip into the water low enough to cover his h to drown him if he was unconscious and close to death anyway, but the coughing fit would an nodded The wheel began to turn

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Thank you for receiving me," Moan stood, his dinner untouched He didn’t lift his eyes froan turning Behind him, Gnasher ate noisily and, with a total lack of stealth, stole Logan’s biscuits

"How could I deny you? When the Shinga plays, kings dance," Logan said flatly He didn’t turn A wetboy had delivered her letter--her ad But the shock of it was rief

Mo From this distance, all they could see was that there were still a few dozen people on the platfor The signal flag to let Logan knohen Kylar died still hadn’t been raised

"This changes everything," Momma K said

"What hand did you have in Terah Graesin death?" Logan asked

"None," Molee Mars on the right track, hoping he would discover that Terah betrayed her little sister Natassa I even arranged for hiuards would stop hied for Luc Graesin to be there to hear it I hoped Luc would kill Terah Once you were king, I planned to have this talk with you regardless, though I was planning on waiting a an led

"The Ceuran food supplies and our oould run out," Moh food to feed the city through the winter"

Logan stared at her, not asking how she’d get it "In return for what?"

"The thing is, Your Majesty, with this--" she gestured to the wheel--"you’ve proven that you have integrity Integrity is rare here, but it won’t change this city alone You need allies for that, and if you want allies in this city, you will be seeking allies who have objectionable histories"

"Like you?"

"And like Count Drake, whoé leadership"

Logan blinked

"The point is, if you try to hold to account every official in the city who’s ever taken a bribe or violated a trust or broken a law, you will have no officials"

"What do you propose?" Logan asked

"The question is what you propose What will the reign of King Gyre the Firston the wheel in the distance "I é"