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"And where the hell is Neph Dada?" he heard a voice say Though he couldn’t see the speaker, he knew it must be Jenine "His Holiness de For now, begone"

Dorian blinked and the vision was gone General Naga turned back as he reached the flap of the tent He see his eye "The queen speaks with eneral?"

"Of course not, Your Holiness I will report e get word" He bowed deeply, and left

When the last of the breath Jenine took his hand and he sat "I need to use it," Dorian said

"Every tiht, but with so ift tohe knew to do , but with Neph’s men and Moburu’s nearby, there were too many factors at play for him to not try to see the futures down the roads before hiht he understood why prophecy seein and harder to stop now The vir had broken open new channels everywhere throughout his Talent, and it had penetrated his prophetic gift, too All his h the tentacles of vir rather than their natural channels Because the vir was thicker, everything passed more freely It was quite possible that the vir, tainted itself, was tainting Dorian’s gift with bizarre visions like those he’d had of the Strangers and his wife pregnant with twins, but there was no help for it now He would stop using the vir and only use the Talent--after this

"I love you," he said

"I love you too," she answered She had a quill and parch he said, in case he couldn’t remember it afterward

Then he dove in He tried to hold onto enough of hi He saw a Titan rise from Black Barrow, and then he pulled downstrea at a sather wood Then Dorian was a hundred years downstrea soht it, tried to throw himself back to a ti in the guts of Khaliras, deciding whether to take Jenine out through the sewage chutes or try to fight their way out, everything would turn from this one choice--no, that was the past, da for hi yet There was a whisper as it called again, and then it was lost

Jenine drew the curtain that separated Dorian’s throne, where he was quietly , from the rest of his tent "Dorian!" she whispered onedidn’t stir She shut the curtain and said, "Co forin and looking conspicuously at the drawn curtain "My apologies, but we’ve just had a report from a spy His Holiness ht now"

"I’m afraid this requires ieneral were perilously close to being rude "Then deliver your report"

General Naga hesitated, open- to a wohter, then wisely closed his hness, our spy reports that the Cenarians and Ceurans are planning to attack our supply lines at the city of Reigukhas They plan to have ten thousand ht under cover of darkness The Cenarian king said--"

"The Cenarian king?" Jenine interrupted

For an instant, General Naga see said that ould think any torchestonight werebetween their campfires In truth, such movement would only be visible to us for a short section The Cenarian queen--your pardons, Highness, I obviously a to so many queens--the Cenarian queen concurred" He sed nervously

"Do you trust this spy?" Jenine asked She didn’t knohether she more wanted Dorian to wake up instantly and ht wake up with a screahness"

"If ait until we see the et to Reigukhas in ti"

"Then send fifteen thousand ht, we can send riders to get them to turn back"

"Fifteen thousand? From a defensive position, five should be ukhas, and would still preserve our superiority of nuht, and Jenine would have conceded to his experience if this had been a war, but it wasn’t a war Those were her people on the other side, too Fifteen thousanddefensive force that the Cenarians would call off an attack on the town as hopeless Jenine was saving lives on both sides, and tomorrow, they’d be able to send emissaries to the Cenarians before blood was spilled "Fifteen thousand, general That is, unless you’re still having a problea barely hesitated before he bobbed his head and withdrew For an odd ht fell, Logan and Garuwashi h each had bodyguards stationed out of earshot on the stairs They watched the line of sa’ceurai, every one bearing a torch, heading down river Then the kings turned, scanning the thousands of ca the plain around Black Barrow The Khalidoran arhlanders stayed outside the circle around Black Barrow that was carpeted with those oddly non-deco bodies They called it the Dead Dean asked

"Wanhope’s a wytch, not a warrior," Garuwashi said "I think he’ll believe everything his spy told hian had sent ten thousand men west, but only until they were blocked froht by the forest Then the uish their torches and an was sure no sht now: thein circles, and he couldn’t tell them in case more spies lurked in their ranks Meanwhile, Garuwashi’s thousand were continuing west They would ford the river and come back on the opposite side as stealthily as possible Dressed in h the Dead Demesne When the sun rose, they would lie in the shadows and huddle next to the corpses as if dead the way around Black Barrow Garuwashi figured it would take thenal or when they saw the opportunity, thethe dead, and attack the coht, Jenine was there If not, they stillhimself