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The questioning went on and on The coht foot from her left He wanted to know all about her In particular, he wanted to knohy she had gone out to the island in such rough weather

When she told hiht he treated it as soh But she could tell, from his expression, that his opinion of her had reached rock botto out a lot of folklore crap to fool stupid people Liala didn't like to be thought stupid But that was better than being regarded as a spy That was clearly his big fear The interrogation went on and on The same questions were asked repeatedly but in different ways She guessed he was trying to get her to contradict herself

Bryn tried to intervene He said it was no way to talk to a princess and was told to shut up The arded Bryn as naive Liala wondered what they would do if they thought she was a spy sent by the guardians She looked in the rear ht happen to hi you to a doctor, Princess'

'Why?'

'To get that implant removed'

'Has the doctor done it before?'

'There's nothing special about iet 'euardians can folloith their computers When we have them removed we become non-people and that's hoe like it'

He turned to Bryn

'You'll get yours taken out too You will vanish off the guardians' data base like you've been zapped by a troll But it won't come out of your shoulder because you're not royal like the princess It will come out of your bum because you're classified as coet theirs

'Do the trolls have iuardians control the pieces on a board'

The coet your friend, back there, checked out as well, Princess See if he has an implant Then we'll ask him lots and lots of questions and find out where he really comes from'