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Now that you arecome we shall do great things. They held their breath as they picked their way through the pit. It's a Khagggun recording device. She wanted to spit in his face as he had spat in hers.

It belonged to Othnam and Mehmmer now, alegacy of hope and transcendence. And of course he was right, for the narbuck is one of Miina's creatures, the original pair cast from ThePearl during the creation of Kun-dala itself. She had never thought of herself as capable of being calculating and deviousalthough, she supposed, learning to be politic might conceivably be cast in that mold. The resultshad been predictable.