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I know very little about Giyan, Konara Inggres replied. You need your rest. As he watched, Marethyn turned her head a little, the better to assess how the light fell upon her subject. And in a very real sense Nith Batoxxx had brokered that special fate.

Something—some criticalthing— kept drawing her back there. He had given noindication that he had heard them or, indeed, that he was aware that he was no longer alone in the room. The scent came a split second before the movement, for it had learned that under extreme tension thesebiped interlopers exuded a scent. 'The natureof evil, the very thing that is the chink in its armor, as Rekkk so colorfully put it, is often its greateststrength.