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was wrongabout her,” he said after a moment’s thought. “Shetold you that the magic that
destroyed your Family released hersoul from captivity. But a soul held captive would race to
theVeil, wouldn’t it? Beyond the Veil she could have claimed anew birth, a new life, all the
things from which she’d beendeprived for so long. Instead, she satisfied herself with seeingthings
through your eyes, hearing things through your ears, andexisting as a powerless, disembodied
voice that meddled in affairshundreds of years after her death as if they affected herpersonally.”

“She hoped the Mirror would raise her from the dead,I’m sure.”

“Why?”

She wondered if he was intentionally stupid sometimes. “Sothat she wouldn’t be dead anymore.”

Hasmal shook his head. “That would make sense for yourbrothers and sisters and parents, Kait —
they have you here,and everything from the life they’ve left behind. But if youraised her from the
dead, your ancestor would have no one andnothing familiar in the world. Everything has
changed. Whywouldn’t she choose to find the souls who shared her otherlifetimes with her and
rebirth with them? Why wouldn’t shewant to return to her rightful existence?”
Kait considered that. “I don’t know, really. Shetalked about helping me, about having her
revenge on the Sabirs,about, well . . . She was interested in my life, in whatit was like to be me.
She thought it would be exciting to be Karnee— she talked about that a lot. I don’t know why she
wasmore interested in me and now than in going on. I didn’t thinkabout it.” She rocked back on
her heels. Perhaps she’dbeen stupid. “I was so grateful to know there might be a wayfor me to get
my family back, I didn’t worry about what Amaleewould get out of the deal.”

“Don’t do anything to call her back, Kait. Idon’t know where she’s gone, but I think we’rebetter
off without her. Even if she returns to you, don’t askher to help you work the Mirror. I think
she’sdangerous.”

“She’s the reason I came after the Mirror.”

“I know.” He rubbed his head. “That’s justone of my many nightmares.”

“Nightmares?”

When he looked over at her, she noticed the dark circles underhis eyes and the tension in his face
and realized that the serenitythat had molded his features the first time they’d met wasgone. “I
haven’t forgotten the prophecy that sent merunning from you after we first met: If I allowed
myself to beentangled in your life, I faced a horrible death. Now I amindubitably enmeshed in
your affairs, and the two of us arecustodians of nothing less than the Mirror of Souls. Andyou’re
haunted by a ghost, and we’re in the company ofSabirs. And I am and shall always be a coward. I
sleep poorly thesedays.”

“You’re still alive.”

“That’s less comfort than you might think.”

Heavy footsteps thundered overhead, and Hasmal rose. Kait stayedcrouched, untying a knot and
beginning to retie it. Several of thecrew came down the gangway, arms laden with the toys and
tools ofthe Ancients. They were laughing to each other, but they stoppedwhen they saw Kait and