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when she'd married him.
How lucky WolfStar had been! StarLaughter knew she'd been the perfect wife for him, her beauty
and power complementing WolfStar's own attractions and abilities.
And how she had helped him! WolfStar's lust for the throne had been more than matched by
StarLaughter's own desire for power. She had been the one to suggest the murder of WolfStar's father,
StarKnight.
She had been the one to fire the arrow that sent StarKnight tumbling out of the sky.
And for the throne that she helped him take, WolfStar had loved her.
He'd adored her!
StarLaughter knew that even now adoration could not be very far beneath the surface of
WolfStar's sneers and outward contempt.
No, WolfStar still loved her, and WolfStar would aid her in the rescue of their son.
After all, wasn't it his son who'd been stolen as well?
And hadn't he adored his son, and adored her for conceiving him?
StarLaughter's face softened into something resembling love as she stared blank-eyed into the
wasted landscape. How wrong she'd been to seek revenge on WolfStar. She'd always adored him, she
could understand that now, and it would take but a little effort on her part to make
WolfStar understand that he still adored her.
"We are SunSoar lovers, you and I," she whispered, one hand clutching at the tattered blue robe
above her breasts. "One being, one soul. Nothing can keep us apart. Nothing."
And on these twisted thoughts, StarLaughter built hope.

"I have to get away from Qeteb," StarLaughter said, at what seemed like hours later. "And then find
WolfStar. Oh, how happy he will be to see me!"
She jerked her eyes around the land, seeking answers. Where could she go? Where would be safe
from Qeteb?
"I know the nooks and crannies of this land better than any Demon," she whispered, and then she
nodded slightly. Yes, she knew a place to hide. A place that felt right. A place that called her.
But it would take her a while to get there ... unless ...
She turned her head and regarded Spiredore thoughtfully.

Chapter 12

The Key to Sanctuary

Faraday and Gwendylyr were wandering through an orchard of green apples and cotton trees laden with
pale pink and blue flowers. With them walked Azhure and two of the Star Gods, Pors and Silton. They
were chatting about DragonStar, and what had happened in something called the crystal dome, but the
man who observed them did not care to listen as closely as he could have.
Isfrael had other things to think about, and other deeds to be done. He stood unobserved and
watched the walkers for a short while, then he slipped silently away amid the thickness of the
heavily-laden boughs of the cotton trees.
Their beauty and scent left him unmoved.
Isfrael had no qualms about what he was going to do. He did not think of it so much as a betrayal or
a treachery, but as an inevitability. Sanctuary was bound to crumple before the power of the Demons at
some stage or the other, and whether or not Isfrael speeded up the process was immaterial.
What was important was regaining his position at the head of the Avar, managing to exclude
Faraday (didn't the Avar realise that the time of their precious Tree Friend was well and truly over?)
once and for all, and managing to save the Avar from the inevitable destruction of Sanctuary.
Isfrael wanted the forests, he wanted his position as Mage-King back, and he wanted the Avar to