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our best way to reach the wasteland. But I don't want to risk everyone in the finding out
whether the Demons have penetrated Spiredore yet —"
"Would they manage to enter Sanctuary?" Faraday asked. Gods, if they managed that...!
"No. They might find out where Sanctuary is, but they will not be able to break through its protective
enchantments."
And yet ... DragonStar's mind was consumed with the impression he'd had when he'd
originally seen Sanctuary; it had looked just like one of the worlds the Demons had dragged him through
in their leaps through space towards Tencendor.
What if there was a flaw? What if the Demons could find their way in?
Stars! Where would the peoples go then?
 DragonStar gave himself a mental shake to get rid of the negative thoughts. The Enemy had built this
place, and they'd damn well meant it as a Sanctuary against the Demons. They knew what they were
doing, didn't they?
"Are you sure?" Faraday asked, and DragonStar sent her a reassuring smile.
"Of course. Now, I want to take DareWing with me," DragonStar turned to the birdman
and managed a considerably more genuine smile, "not only for the company, but because there is
something I need to show him. Something he, as we, will need in our battle to reclaim the wasteland."
"And that is ..." DareWing said.
"Your army," DragonStar said, and then laughed at the hungry expression that filled
DareWing's face.

Chapter 10
A Busy Day in Spiredore


Take me to the lost peoples of Tencendor, StarGrace had asked, and Spiredore did. StarGrace
walked up a series of stairways, across a myriad of balconies, and eventually Spiredore grew merciful on
her aching legs and simmering temper, and led her to a short tunnel of blue mist.
At the end of the tunnel StarGrace could see the milling forms of a score of people, and she laughed.
"Maybe Qeteb will allow me my revenge on WolfStar for this service," she cried, and stepped into
the blue-misted tunnel to see just where this new StarSon had hidden the millions of souls the Demons so
hungered for.
When she'd almost reached the end of the tunnel, StarGrace halted and stared, her eyes draining of
all their triumph.
Then she snarled. This damned tower had thought to amuse itself at her expense!
Spiredore had indeed led her to the lost peoples of Tencendor ... but not the hidden
peoples. Beyond the end of the tunnel StarGrace could discern a cave, and in that cave huddled and
whispered and scampered a score of crazed humans. They had torn off (or eaten) their clothes, and now
were naked, clothed only in sores and abrasions. Their maddened eyes shifted constantly, and they
scratched at themselves and at the others who shifted past them.
"Ssssss!" StarGrace almost fell over in her haste to get back inside Spiredore. Stars alone knew
where that cave was, and she didn't want to waste time flying back to Spiredore (and a waiting and
impatient Qeteb) to start all over again.
She relaxed slightly as her feet clicked onto the boards of a stairway again, and she halted, and
spoke with some aspersion.
"Spiredore, take me to the place where StarSon has hidden the peoples of Tencendor."
And she set her feet to the stairs before her.

"My army?" DareWing said as he and DragonStar walked along the road towards the place where the
silvery bridge had once spanned the chasm. DragonStar had left the Star Stallion, the Alaunt and the