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TO PERSUADE ANY LIVING CREATURE TO HIS WILL.
BUT THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR HIM. HE
THE CROWNS AS WELL. USING HIS POWER, HE BENT
THE CROWN COUNCIL TO HIS WILL AND WAS GIVEN
THE CROWN AS WELL. HE IT WAS WHO SET
OUT TO PROVE THERE WAS NO REAL NEED TOтАФ
тАФCROWN AND MAZEMASTER.
FOR A TIME, THE GLORY OF OUR IN
CREASED. OSSMINID RULED AS MAZEMASTER AND
LEFT THE CROWNS TO THE CROWN COUNCIL. BUT
AS HE RULED, HE CHANGED.
тАФHE SOUGHT TO CHOOSE CANDIDATES TO
WALK THE MAZE. FEW OF HIS CHOICES SUCCEEDED. FEWER AND FEWER PERSUADERS
EMERGED TO DO THE WORK OF OUR .
ONE DAY HE WRAPPED HIMSELF AS MAZEMASTER
AND WALKED INTO THE EMPEROR'S CROWN,
AS WAS HIS RIGHT. HE HAD NO PERSUADER TO
SEND TO THE WARRING PLANET, AND SO HE SENT
HIS OWN THOUGHTS THROUGH THE EMPEROR'S CROWN.

THIS WAS NOT JUST A MESSAGE FROM THE EMPEROR
OF CROWNS. THIS WAS A FORCE FELT OVER
THE WHOLE PLANET. NONE COULD RESIST. THE
POPULATION WAS .
WE SOUGHT TO REPLACE OSSMINID. HE WOULD
NOT LOOSE THE HE HAD GATHERED. THERE
WAS KILLIN. HE WOULD NOT YIELD. ON THE DAY
HE ENTERED THE CROWN FOR A SECOND TIME,
HE TO DESTROY US.
TO STOP HIM, WE DESTROYED OURSELVES,
KNOWING THAT WITHOUT CROWN AND MAZE,
OUR WOULD DISINTEGRATE.
WARNING. WARNING. WARNING.
THE MAZE HEART THAT US THE POWER TO
PERSUADE COULD NOT BE DESTROYED. WE HAVE
REMOVED IT AND CONCEALED IT.
WARNING. WARNING. WARNING.
THE OF HOW THE MAZEHEART DIES
WITH US. KNOW ONLY THAT WE DARED NOT
INTO A FROM WHICH NOTHING EMERGES. ALL
OUR WOULD NOT LET US PREDICT WHAT
WOULD HAPPEN.
IF THE MAZEHEART IS FOUNDтАФ DESTROY ITSELF.

THE LAST PERSUADER

CHAPTER ONE
Mating
Zref Ortenau MorZdersh'n lay supine on the fine white sand at the edge of the spawning pond contentedly watching the surging
waters where the two kren mated. Zref was nude in the steamy air, though outside the pond room he'd have worn several layers of