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fruit. The Czardhan alliance is gathering a fresh army to assault Padmasa
from the west. And, we have succeeded in tempting the Kassimi back into
the ring."

"Ah?" Ribela had not yet heard of this development on the diplomatic
front. Lessis continued. "Their defeats had kept them subdued, but now
the Great King has heard of the Czardhan successes, and most recently of
the fall of Axoxo. He dares to raise his standard once more. Whether he
will have the stomach to take an army north to Padmasa is another
matter."

"But just having Kassim reenter the fight will increase the pressure on
Padmasa."

"And the hidden enemy, the Dominator, what of him?" This was the
purview of the Queen of Mice.
 "He lies yet in Haddish. Deep within a recuperation chamber."

"And the being that I told you of, the gestalt that arose at the fall of
Mirchaz?"

"Can it truly have been gestalt? That chimera they have searched for for
so long?"

Lessis shrugged. "I do not claim to understand such things."

"And I do?"

"You understand them, sister. You more than anyone alive."

There was a silence.

"Well, possibly that is true. Anyway, that boy knows more than he has
revealed."

"I sense no malice in Relkin. The Sinni have marked him."

"Waakzaam the Great has marked him, too. He sees more deeply in
these ways than any mortal. He will have seen their mark. He will know
that the Sinni are interfering here, in contravention of their oaths. The
malice and hate that seethes within Waakzaam's breast will not let him
forgive such wounds.

"The boy can never return to a normal life. I have sent instructions that
he is to be housed by the Office and kept under close watch and guard. His
dragon, likewise must be protected. The Deceiver will come after them."

"Ah," said Ribela. "Poor lad, his dreams will never come true."