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"So you do not recognize me, treacherous Drowner," Kadiya murmured. She
turned to a sturdy little man of the Folk who stood just behind her. "Jagun. It
seems that the night sight of these addlepate truce-breakers is as weak as their
wits. Let torches be brought to enlighten them."

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It had begun to rain heavily again. But at Jagun's command several members of
the Nyssomu force struck fireshells and ignited pitch-dipped bundles of reeds,
which they took from their knapsacks and stuck onto long sticks. The captured
Skritek warriors hissed and bellowed defiance as flame after flame sprang to life,
illuminating the turbulent scene in the clearing. Then, as torchbearers converged
upon Kadiya and she slipped off her hoodcape, ignoring the downpour, the
monsters fell silent.

She was a woman of medium stature but seemed tall among her cohort of
diminutive Nyssomu. Her hair was russet, bound into a tight crown of braids.
She wore a cuirass of golden scale-mail over leathern forester garb much like
that of her companions, and on her breast was the sacred Black Trillium emblem.
Each petal of the Flower bore a gleaming eye—one golden like that of the Folk,
one deep brown like Kadiya's own, and one pale silvery-blue with odd glints in
its dark pupil, and this last eye belonged to the Vanished Ones.

Now we know you, the chief of the Drowners admitted with reluctance. You are
the Lady of the Eyes.

"And I am also Great Advocate of all Folk, including you foolish Skritek of the
Southern Morass. How dare you invade and pillage these lands of the Nyssomu
Folk in violation of my edict? Answer me, Roragath!"

We do not accept your authority! Besides, one greater than you has revealed the
truth to us about your spurious truce. He has told us that

soon the Vanished Ones will return and the Sty Trillium shine again in the
heavens. Then you humans and all of your cringing Oddling slaves will be

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destroyed. The World of the Three Moons will be as it was in the beginning: the
domain of Skritek alone.

Yes! Yes! roared the other monsters. They began to thrash about and struggle in
the net even more violently than before.