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dare the Demons. But eventually each of us will have our task to do, and for each of us that task will be
a particular Demon."
"But there are only four Demons left," Gwendylyr said, "not counting Qeteb. Sigholt's bridge
destroyed Rox —"
"Evil cannot be destroyed," Katie whispered into Faraday's lap, "it can only be transformed."
No-one heard her.
"— so surely that means only four of us need to confront a Demon. Leagh must wait it out in
Sanctuary. We can't risk her."
DragonStar looked Gwendylyr steadily in the eyes, and then shifted his gaze to Leagh. "We
will all be needed in the wasteland," he said. "Leagh as much as anyone else. Her
pregnancy cannot excuse her. And as for Rox, well... all I know is what I feel. The balance will be
restored."
"How?" asked Goldman.
DragonStar lowered his eyes, remembering his long disquiet about Niah, but not knowing why he
was so disquieted. "Niah," he said. "Niah will become the fifth Demon."
Everyone stilled, dismayed at the thought, and yet instinctively feeling the truth of it.
Niah would become the fifth Demon ... and yet ... yet all felt that peculiar, edgy dissatisfaction that
DragonStar did.
There was something else about Niah. Something else they should all know and understand.

StarGrace entered Spiredore, and hungered. She had been a SunSoar Enchanter once, and
heir to the throne, if StarLaughter's child had not survived.
And he hadn't really, had he?
So, theoretically, she — StarGrace — should now be Talon.
If only WolfStar hadn't embarked on his murderous ambition.
WolfStar, WolfStar, WolfStar!
StarGrace ran the name in a litany of hate through her head. WolfStar! When would Qeteb throw
them at WolfStar?
Ah! She calmed herself, remembering the instructions Qeteb gave her. There would be time enough
for WolfStar.
StarGrace cocked her bird-like head to one side and regarded the interior of the tower. This was
the first time she'd ever been inside. During her lifetime in this land only Icarii Enchanter-Galons had been
allowed to know Spiredore's secrets.
Above her the tower seemingly rose into infinity in a misfit collection of stairways and crazily-canted
balconies. Nothing made sense — no stairways linked to balconies, and no balcony gave way to any
room.
There was, apparently, nowhere to go.
Except that Qeteb had given her a destination, hadn't he?
"Spiredore," Star Grace said in chirp-like tones that she thought might please the tower, "take me to
Tencendor's lost peoples."
And she folded her black wings neatly at her back, and set her clawed feet to the first steps of the
stairway that led upwards from the floor of the tower.

"You said that you and I must return first, DragonStar?" Dare Wing asked.
"Yes," DragonStar said. "For two reasons. One, I need to know if Spiredore is still useful."
"Is it our only link with the Field of Flowers?" Leagh said. She was still trying to come to terms with
her spurt of fear at the idea that she'd be needed to battle one of the Demons. Her? What of her child? In
what danger would she place it?
"We can only approach the Field through the wasteland that was Tencendor," DragonStar affirmed.
"And unless I can find another route, or unless we want to climb the stairs through the Keep, Spiredore is