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How?

An idea came to her. She’d have to get Hasmal and Ian onher side, though she suspected from his
reaction to Ry’s namethat Ian wouldn’t like her proposal. Then she’d needsubterfuge and
negotiating skill and a bit of Hasmal’s magicand more than a touch of luck to make it work. She
found herselfwondering if her years of diplomatic studies would serve her aswell as even a day’s
worth of real experience. She closed hereyes and breathed in the ash-scented air, and hoped
she’dlearned as much as she thought she had.




Chapter 6



After three days in which Ry had becomemore and more certain that Kait was dead, the tiny
flashes ofenergy that linked him to her suddenly reappeared. He couldn’tguess what had
happened to her to make her disappear, and hewouldn’t try. He was satisfied to discover that she
was stillalive, and better yet, that she was close. Incredibly close.
When the Peregrine marooned her, he’d seen throughher eyes that she was not alone, but he
didn’t know if any ofthose who had been with her had survived. He wished he could getanother
glimpse through her eyes, so that he could see what he washeading into, but she was wary,
holding her magical shields astight around herself as a woman would hold her cloak in a
blizzard.Only flickers broke through to guide him to her; he suspected thatshe hid herself as
much from the dangers around her as from him,but he couldn’t touch her mind, so he wasn’t sure.

At the moment when the tug he felt from her ceased to be“ahead” and became “beside,” he was
standing atthe prow of the Wind Treasure, anxiously watching thecoastline that ran by off the
port side of the ship. Hewouldn’t have been able to explain to the captain or any ofhis friends
how he knew that the ocean had brought him as close toher as it could, but he did know. So he
shouted, “Here! Thisis the place. Go inland here!”

The captain sailed through smoke-laced fog into the bay anddropped anchor.

For the first time, Ry saw the place where Kait hid. Rain-washedruins dotted the burned hills and
cliffs that rose out of the bayon all three sides. Not a single tree, not a single blade of grassor
scrawny shrub, offered reprieve from the sea of black ash thatcovered the ground. In his travels,
Ry had seen the aftermath of avolcanic eruption; what he saw before him reminded him of that.

He stared at the bleak panorama and smiled slowly. Kait’scity of the Ancients lay before him.
Such cities existed in Ibera,as well. But an Ancients’ city that had not been known for atleast a
hundred years — that had not been pillaged andplundered by a century’s treasure-seekers — a
city likethat could exist nowhere but in the Novtierras. This city had beenvisited by one ship
alone. Even after the fire, it would housewonders; ruins that had survived the Wizards’ War and
theThousand Years of Darkness would survive fire.

Hidden within those ruined buildings lay pieces of knowledgelost to humankind for the last
thousand years, pieces of knowledgethat had waited for him and his men. With such treasures in
hand,he could return to Calimekka in triumph, reconcile with his Familyand the Wolves, and