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"And your faunish friend cut it down!" Ulien'? Again Rap felt a nudge of premonition.


Zinixo was the disaster at the end of the third millennium, but there had been trouble at the end of the first and the second, also, and it had been
overcome both times. A thousand years since Thume had become the Accursed Land, since the whole race of pixies had vanished, and now ...


"The imperor met a pixie!" he told Raspnex excitedly. "Ulien', you said? War of Five Warlocks? Thume! There's another hope, then! The War of
the Five Warlocks? Maybe there is an answer-in Thume!"


"You're crazy!" Raspnex mumbled, staring. "Maybe! But craziness is all we've got left, isn't it?"


The door downstairs opened briefly, and young Grimrix shot through it like a rabbit. Even before it had slammed shut again, he had translated
himself back upstairs. He was flushed, and panting, and so excited that he shouted aloud. Rap and Raspnex both stiffened defensively, but he did
not notice-and he did not seem to have been warped from his loyalty.


"They're here, sir! Hussars, all around the house. All three streets." Images of several hundred soldiers and their mounts ...


"Any occults?" Raspnex demanded.



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"Didn't stay around to look, but if you'll let me go down there again and thump ass, I can find out!" He was twitching with battle lust. Drums and
trumpets ...


"Can't we leave the same way as Master Jalon did?" Signifer Ylo inquired in a shaky voice.


"Quite impossible! " Sagorn snapped, and Rap resisted a desire to laugh.


"You seem very certain of that," Hardgraa growled.


This was no time to start explaining the workings of a sequential spell. "He's right, though! " Rap said. "And wed leave tracks in this snow, wouldn't
we? Raspnex, got any ideas?"


"I can try. I'll try to move us all to my palace."