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His friends were stunned.

“Your own mother was going todeclare — ”

“Barzanne — ”

“By my own soul — ”

“Had she known you were alive and helping me, I have nodoubt she would have declared you
barzanne as well.” Helooked into their eyes. “Your families would not have fared sowell then.”

“No.”

They were nodding, agreeing, ready to forgive.

“I’m sorry,” Ry said. “I never intended toinvolve you in such trouble. I never thought going after
KaitGalweigh would be such a mistake.”

His friends looked at each other, shrugged, looked at him.

Jaim said, “The man who knows the future makes no mistakes.But such a man isn’t a man. He’s a
god.”

Yanth shook his head slowly, then grinned. “True. And youjust think you’re a god.”

“You don’t hate me?” Ry asked.

Valard sighed. “Not yet. Figure out a way for us to beheroes, and to go home again, and we’ll
forgiveeverything.”

Karyl leaned back on one elbow and smiled slowly. “At theleast find us an island inhabited by
beautiful girls we can take aswives, and set us up like parats. With a beautiful young wife,
myown land, and decent weather, I’ll forgive and forget almostanything.”

“At the least, you say?” Now Ry was smiling. “Itisn’t enough for the five of you that all of us are
alive andhealthy?”
Yanth tugged at the front of his shirt, smoothing the silk. Hedidn’t bother to look up as he said,
“Ah, but we knowyou. You’ll do everything you can between now and the time wefind a safe
harbor to get us all killed. Yourself included.”Now he did look up, and his eyes were full of
laughter. “Allwe want is moderate compensation for the hell you’re sure toput us through.”

Ry decided to tell them what he knew, though not precisely howhe’d learned it. If his dead
brother’s spirit had crossedthe Veil to offer him counsel and beg his help, surely that was asecret
the two of them could keep. “I’ve discoveredthrough magic that Kait is going after an artifact that
returns thedead to life. I’m going to take her home as my wife — butall of us are going to carry
home that artifact, and anyother wonders we find in the Ancients’ city she’sdiscovered. With a
ship full of such riches, my mother will be ableto resurrect my father to lead the Wolves again,
and be able tohave my older brother back. And we’ll be heroes.”

And he would be freed from the cloistered life of dark magic andintrigue his mother had planned