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for him.

Yanth frowned. “I would think you would have said somethingbefore this, if only to let us know
we had as much stake inreaching Kait as you do.”

“I didn’t know if she would find her city, or if shewould find the Mirror of Souls — and why give
you hope whenthere was none? Or, for that matter, why let you know how badthings were when
we might yet hope for a chance of reprieve? Latelywhen I’ve looked through her eyes I’ve seen
both ruinsand an artifact that I believe is the Mirror — so now you canfind out about the trouble
we’re in and find out that we mighthope to get ourselves out of it at the same time. Meanwhile, as
wetry, your families are safe.”

What he didn’t know and would not tell them was whetherKait still lived. Perhaps he’d brought
all of them to theother side of the world for nothing — that inexplicable linkthat bound him to
Kait was as silent as if it had never existed. Hehad followed her across half a world, a madness he
still could notexplain even to himself. He had thrown away his name, his Family,and his future
for a stranger who was the born enemy of the Sabirs,a woman he had met in the flesh once, and
that in a dark alley infront of the corpses of the men who would have killed her. He didnot know
if she could love him. He did know she had every reason todistrust him, and perhaps even to hate
him.

And now he could no longer tell if she still lived.

He stared out the porthole. She was ahead of him somewhere. Andhe would give anything to find
her still alive.
 Chapter 4



Imogene Sabir had placed her chaircarefully beneath the beam of sunlight that poured through
the highwindow of her study. Though she couldn’t see the sunlight, shecould feel it; ever since
the attack on the Galweighs, when the rewhah — the magical backlash that came from using
magicas force — nearly destroyed her, her bones craved itsheat.

Finder Malloren stood before her, but not in the attitude ofprofound obeisance required when one
of his station faced one ofhers. He mistook her blindness for lack of ability to see,which was his
error, and one for which she would eventually makehim pay. With her heightened Karnee and
magical senses, she couldnot only determine his physical position, but also his mentalimpressions
of her, while her sense of smell picked up a secret hethought he kept from everyone that she
could, at some time in thefuture, threaten to expose. She thought doing so would make
himvirtually her slave.

When she had time for such amusements, she decided she wouldplay with the Finder a bit.

Meanwhile, however, she listened to his presentation of hislatest hunt.

“. . . This long after the fact, it was hard tofind anyone around the docks who remembered
anything. I had to paya lot of money to people who might be able to put me intouch with people
who might have been there. It wasdifficult — ”