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The way he handled the guardians was nothing short of a Oneon his every word Hundreds had gone through the same experience and ended up dead After a session of debauchery with the sirens they had met their fate at the hands of the furies

That hadn't happened to the professor Instead of watching hiuardians had bestowed hienius He knehat sort of people he was dealing with No one had to tell him he had fallen prey to a mob of homicidal maniacs He summed them up in an instant

The professor knew that the only way to survive was to te they desperately needed They had wrecked their own realain That hat he proot theuardian That told you how clever he was

Tom ambled up the few last steps

'Prince Crispin I didn't know you watched gladiators fight'

Crispin grinned back 'I didn't know you played baqsheal, Professor'

'Nor did I The ga like it in the Sixth Realm?'

'We don't have trolls in the Sixth Realladiators'

'Not for the past two thousand years If anyone tried to stage anything like that in the Sixth Realm, they would be locked up'

'You mean they don't allow blood sports?'

'No, Crispin and they don't allow zombies either They don't breed trolls and they don't capture people and turn theht the Sixth Realends say '

'Legends They're for children'

'They say the saviour will co syste I've seen three real'

'Legends get a lot wrong, Crispin'

'That's not all they ht have been wrong about what he would be like They said the saviour would radiate goodness and not be like ordinary s towards woes, Professor If he came from a realm where the primitive imperatives of the inner s and surgical procedures then he et them'