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But until the battle’s outcome is known, wait where you are,where it is safest. “Do you remember that day?” the lead cleric demanded. “Aged goat urine,” she answered, “tinged with certain herbs. Is it so impossible to believe thatyour wizards might be wrong in how they interpret it?”Suddenly Tristan understood.

As Mallory reclaimed her chair, Shailiha walked to stand before Mary. Just as Hoskiko had instructed him, he imagined his and Shailiha’s medallions hanging side byside in space. “Is that Failee’s lost spell?” she asked her masters. Then he sat down on the kitchen table among the uncleared supper dishes and began to cry like a child, the tears trickling through the knobbed fingers of his big dark hands.