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What Spiredore led Isfrael to was not quite what he'd expected. A blue-misted tunnel, surely, but it
ended only in a drift of cold stars, not in the Sacred Groves.
"The Bitch!" he spat, and sent a string of cold, vile curses into an uncaring universe.
The Mother had closed off the approaches to the Sacred Groves — nothing else could
have stopped Spiredore!
"The stupid, thoughtless Bitch!"
And Isfrael stormed back down the blue mist tunnel until he was back in Spiredore. He would have
to trade with the Demons, after all.
No matter. He could best them any day.
"Take me to Qeteb," he said, and stepped upwards.

Chapter 18
The Joy of the Hunt

"Dare Wing," DragonStar said when he returned to the foot of the Icescarp Alps, "I must get back to
Sanctuary ..." He told Dare Wing about Spiredore's eventual death.
"When that happens then I do not know of an effective way to move so quickly between Sanctuary
and this wasteland."
"And what will you do once you get to Sanctuary?"
DragonStar looked about the landscape for a few moments, avoiding the question. What would he
do?
"I am torn, DareWing," he eventually said, "between simply bringing you and the Strike Force back
into Sanctuary with me, or leaving you here."
 DareWing shook his head. "The Strike Force cannot easily go into Sanctuary. They ... they ..."
"They are too far beyond death to be able to tolerate its —" DragonStar hesitated, "— to tolerate its
confines."
"You must bring the other witches out," DareWing said. "Out into the wasteland."
"Yes," DragonStar sighed. "I know that. We will do no good huddled in Sanctuary, but the
thought of exposing them prematurely to the Demons ... DareWing, I must go back and get them,
but there is something you should know."
"Yes?"
"The Enchanted Song Book was not a book of solutions, my friend, but a sad list of errors. The
Song Book told us what not to do."
"And so what is left?"
"Everything the Demons cannot stand," DragonStar said softly.
DareWing made to say something, shifting impatiently, but DragonStar laid a hand on his shoulder
and quieted him.
"Listen to me. I am going back to Sanctuary, and I will come back with the girls and Goldman.
DareWing, will you start to clear Tencendor while I am gone? The north must be crawling with
corruption, and all of Tencendor must be cleansed before it can be reborn."
"And if I meet up with one of the Demons?"
DragonStar took his time in replying, his ringers gently tapping the book, his eyes
unfocused.
He remembered what WolfStar had told him about Caelum's death, and he remembered what
Fischer had said. Reflecting the Demons' malevolence back at them had not truly defeated them: it had
only driven the evil underground for it to fester.
Evil cannot be destroyed — and certainly not by using evil against evil.
A word of love had driven Qeteb to distraction.
DragonStar's face softened, and he smiled.