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"You’re going to Black Barrow?" Marcus Guerin asked

"The Khalidorans have learned to raise krul"

"Krul? A legend!" Marcus Guerin scoffed "This is completely--"

"Have you been to Black Barrow, ambassador?"

His blue eyes looked troubled

"Black Barrow is the only place where, once killed, the krul can’t be Raised again It’s the only place we can fight the"

"So you want us to help you invade your neighbor? That’s an awfully bold interpretation of accords intended to curtail the Chantry’s imperial ambitions"

Suddenly, froic Though she’d only i, and had never seen theus--in her Chantry

"Speaker, is so?"

Istariel had only moments to decide how to react Could she turn the presence of a hostilebe to her advantage? Perhaps it could have been, if the Chantry’s objective in this talk were anything positive As it was, she wished only to back out of a centuries-old treaty without declaring war "Yes, you slap us in the face with old, unfounded allegations, sir We wish only to survive as a house of learning" A rush of ic much more familiar to her snapped in response to the intruder, whoever he was Istariel was surprised at the force of it It was a chaining h to use it was Ariel, blessed oblivious Ariel Or, perhaps, Vi

"A house of learning?" the aic?"

So he knew Dammit "If our allies abandon us in the face of a massacre? Yes"

His lips thinned to a tiny line "This is most precipitous"

Istariel opened her ical concussion ripped through the Chantry The constant buzz of ae’s Talent ceased and, for the first time in centuries, perhaps the first tiic ripped through everything, though it destroyed nothing except whatever the Sisters were actively weaving It had character, a distinct flavor: free and fierce, not hostile, but rather a strength unaware of itself The ie arche, and it shook her to her core Ariel had tried to chain hiically, Istariel felt like a little girl trapped between screa parents

"Wh-as that?" the ah even this un-Talented toad could feel it

"We hereby withdraw froae from its dominions, they will leave peacefully I do request, however, that you give us six ood faith This is no declaration of ith you Please let the eht only to live"