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Fainy picked the dead hare up by its ears. ”“Is it true that you have attained K’Shari?” Tristan asked. Holding themask in one hand, she grasped the gold medallion hanging around her neck with the other. A clearportent of what would come should Faegan’s plan fail, fresh blood and severed body parts startedbobbing atop the waves.

He handed it to Shailiha for safekeeping. Hovering with its tail still entwined around its bloody prize, the thing stared greedily at Traax for amoment. As Yasmin fed him another piece of lamb, he looked over atRafe. He was lying atop a silken bed.