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Picking some up, he rubbed it between two fingers. “That is how they take their sustenance?”“Yes,” Serena answered. I doubt that he willneed any more of your instruction. So much for diplomacy, Tristan thought.

Even then, anger flashed in his aquamarine eyes. The two mystics were sitting in Faegan’s quarters aboard the Tammerland, playing wizard’schess. But I’m willing tohazard a guess. Reznik’s impending experiments were paramount to the Heretics’ plans and had to beprotected at all costs.