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Lady Kingair looked up from her own papers

Biffy pointed at a line in one of the older texts "Look here, one hundred and twenty years ago, reports of the plague being situated as far as Cairo See here, particularclean"

Lyall tilted his head, a sign Biffy was to continue

"And here, a si the exact extent of the plague, possibly because it would take a olf interested in scientific investigation, and willing to turn h the desert But so far as I can tell, fifty years ago, the God-Breaker Plague stretched from Aswan to, still, Cairo"

"Well?"

Biffy shook out a raphy and alloater features and territory markers, ue would have extended like so" He drew a loose circle on the raphite "So far as I can tell, the initial extent, here, remained fixed for thousands of years, ever since olves were divested of their rule and the plague began"

Lyall bent over the ued "So what has you worried? This all see it Rae and becaue"

"Yes, except sometime after this last report, the one dated 1824, it moved"

"What! What moved?"

"Well, perhaps not moved Perhaps expanded is a better word Look at the ot hold of, dated a few decades ago Admittedly they come out of the Alexandria Hive and one loner ho braved the desert out of soious fervor But I would say, at a conservative guess, that the God-Breaker Plague has expanded some one hundred er circle on his map "Here It now includes Siwah and Damanhúr and stretches all the way to the outskirts of Alexandria"

"What!"

"Soue to start up again"

"This is not good," stated Professor Lyall baldly

"You think our Dubhthis inforair

"He was sent looking for preternatural ered on?"

"Why be so obsessed with contacting Lady Maccon on the subject?" Lady Kingair see

"Well, she is a preternatural," said Biffy

"We ram immediately with this information Do you have an appointment scheduled with Lady Maccon, Biffy?" asked Lyall

"Yes, I… How did you know?"

"Because it’s what I would have done in your place When is it?"

"Tomorrow at sunset"

"You must relay this information to Lady Maccon"

"Of course"

"And you estured with his head at Lady Kingair

"Yes, that your secret is out, that our pack is about to change I know"

"You are still not resigned to the change?" Lyall cocked his head to the side and lowered his voice

"You will leave reat deal of responsibility" Biffy looked up at hi further interest in the uise any sentiht have just proven hoell placed entleair, "how about you prove Lord Maccon’s faith and figure out who shot my Beta?"

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