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"You should be so lucky," he told her. "A priest you can see. No, I'm afraid he'll be a bit subtler this
time. He'll probably try to turn someone close to you against you. Someone you trust. Someone who can
get near you."

R'shiel studied Brak for a long moment then glanced down at Tarja. "You think he'll turn Tarja against
me, don't you?"

"Tarja, Damin, Adrina, one of the Defenders, who knows? Any one of them could become your enemy
and you won't know a thing about it until they're pulling the knife from your back."

R'shiel stroked Tarja's brow gently before she answered. "Tarja would never betray me."



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 Harshini

"Perhaps not. But trust no one, R'shiel."

"Not even you?"

Brak smiled thinly. "Xaphista can't turn me to his cause, or any Harshini for that matter. He began as a
demon and he was never bonded to my clan or yours. The Harshini you can trust."

"But nobody else?"

"Nobody else."

She stood up, frowning at the idea that everybody she knew was a potential traitor. "Brak, I really don't
like being the demon child, you know that, don't you?"

Brak shrugged. "We all have a destiny we can't avoid, R'shiel."

"I don't believe in destiny."

"I know. That's why the Primal Gods are so worried."

That thought actually cheered her a little. "The Primal Gods are worried?"

"They're worried," he agreed.

"Good," she declared petulantly. "They damned well should be."


CHAPTER 3
R'shiel escaped the mess tent and the wedding feast as soon as she could slip away without being rude.
She had arranged this wedding and felt that the least she could do was make some attempt to be
sociable, although Brak's warning about Xaphista worried her more than she cared to admit. She had
found herself studying faces in the candlelight, wondering who the Overlord would suborn. Which