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"Thirty perhaps," he whispered in Daniel's ear, "no more than that, and one or two so old they could destroy the rest of us in an instant "

"Where, tell me where?"

"Listen," Ar from them "

Khayman

Maharet's child Jessica The thought caught Khayuard Protect Maharet's child Somehow escape from here

He roused hiain, Marius trying to reach the young untuned ears of the Vae, before a broken mirror What could this hts pertained, without doubt, to a mortal woman?

It ca yet unveiled mind: Take care of Jesse Somehow stop the MotherBut there were no words really-it was nooverflow

Khayman's eyesmain floor Far away in some remote corner of the city, an old one wandered, full of fear of the Queen yet longing to look upon her face He had come here to die, but to know her face in the final instant

Khayman closed his eyes to shut this out

Then he heard it again suddenly Jessica, e of Maharet! The sudden vision of Maharet, enshrined in love, and ancient and white as he hi pain He slumped back in the wooden seat and bowed his head just a little Then he looked out again over the steel rafters, the ugly tangles of black wire and rusted cylindrical lights Where are you?

There, far away against the opposite wall, he saw the figure fro Ah, the oldest he had seen so far A giant Nordic blood drinker, seasoned and cunning, dressed in coarse brohide gar straw-colored hair, his heavy brows and s expression

The being was tracking a sh the crowds of the hter

Maddened, disbelieving, Khayhtly on the small woman He felt his eyesrese, thick, and the sareen eyes, sweeping the scene as the female let herself be turned around and around by those who pushed against her

Maharet's profile Maharet's skin, which had been so pale and al of a seashell

In a sudden vivid h the ers As he had pushed her face to the side during the rape, his fingertips had touched the delicate folds of flesh over her eyes Not till a year later had they plucked out her eyes and he had been there re the moment, the feel of the flesh That is before he had picked up the eyes themselves and