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the Enemy's previous mistakes.
What the Enchanted Song Book told him was what not to do.
DragonStar hesitated, then, with a quick twist of his wrist, tossed the Song Book into the moat.
It flared briefly as it fell, its pages rippling and cracking in the wind of its passing, then it vanished.
DragonStar smiled sadly, then let it fade. He did not have much time, and he had much strength to
gain before he could put this knowledge to use.

Chapter 17

Escape from Sanctuary


Isfrael was impatient to make his deal with the Demons. Then he would escape with the Avar to the
Sacred Groves, and leave the Acharites and Icarii to their fate.
But he had one small problem. Getting out of Sanctuary.
DragonStar could do it, wielding Enemy Acharite magic to do so, but Isfrael could not. This place
was crafted of Enemy enchantment, and only those of Acharite blood — and who had reawoken into
their powers — could use it. Isfrael had Acharite blood aplenty from his parents, Axis and Faraday, but
he'd not been through the process of death that was needed to be able to make use of the power, and
Isfrael had no intention of dying for his ambitions.
No, there had to be some other way to get out.
He sat under a great spreading whalebone tree in the heart of the forest that Sanctuary had created
in order to make the Avar feel at home. Isfrael did not appreciate Sanctuary's efforts at all. The entire
forest seemed false: it did not sing, and it did not vibrate with power.
And the Avar watched him out of the corner of their eyes ... almost as if they were keeping an eye
on him, by the Horned Ones, rather than waiting for his will!
Although the Avar people tolerated Isfrael among them, the Avar Banes avoided him completely,
and that made Isfrael more furious than anything else. He knew the Banes talked with Faraday,
although they took pains to do so in private.
The Banes — perhaps all Avar — are keeping secrets from me, thought Isfrael, and the wild
blond curls on his forehead
tightened into even crisper, angrier knots, and his horns twinkled, as if they sharpened themselves on his
thoughts.
His fingers dug into the soft earth at his side.
How could he get out of here?
Isfrael remembered how DragonStar drew the doorway of light to move to and from Sanctuary —
through Spiredore, Isfrael thought — and he lusted for a doorway for himself.
He almost laughed. DragonStar was hardly likely to give him the doorway, was he? And Isfrael
did not like his chances of trying to wrest it off the man: he'd likely set his pet lizard
(another of Minstrelsea's creatures that had betrayed Isfrael) or one of his hounds to his destruction.
There had to be some other way.
And then Isfrael stilled as memory came to his aid.
Faraday had used the doorway to evacuate the Avar from the forests into Sanctuary!
The same doorway, or a different one?
Isfrael could hardly breathe for excitement. DragonStar and his "witches" (Isfrael would have
laughed had he not been so preoccupied) had had only a relatively few days to evacuate all of
Tencendor. If Faraday had been given a doorway with which to work, then had the others?
Probably ... probably ...
And of the others, Leagh was the most trusting ... and the most vulnerable.
Isfrael smiled.