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Eyes, and this I avow by the Three Moons.

Kadiya nodded. "Cut them free," she said to the Nyssomu band. "Then let
Asamun and his counselors negotiate the reparations." She addressed the Skritek
leader once again, laying one hand upon the eyed emblem on her breast. "Do not
let your heart contemplate further treachery, Roragath of the Drowners.


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Remember that my sister Haramis, the White Lady, Archimage of the Land, can
see you wherever you go. She will tell me if you dare to break the Truce of the
Mazy Mire again. If you do I will come for you, and this time requite you
without mercy."

We understand, said Roragath. Is it allowed for us to take vengeance upon the
wicked one who misled us? He came to us only once and then went away
westward into the mountains, out of Ruwenda and toward Zinora. But we could
track him down—

"No," said Kadiya. "It is my command that you do not pursue the troublemaker.
The White Lady and I will deal with him in good time. Only warn other Skritek
to give no credence to his lies."

Picking up her discarded cape and donning it once more against the unrelenting
rain, she beckoned for Jagun to bring a torch and come with her. Side by side,
the Lady of the Eyes and her chief deputy set off along the broad trail leading to
the Vispar River.

After Haramis, the White Lady, had learned of the rampaging monsters in the
remote South and bespoke her triplet sister Kadiya, it had taken ten days to
mobilize the small army of Nys-somu and set up the ambush of the Skritek war
party. Now that the expedition had ended successfully, Kadiya was exceedingly
tired. The Skritek leader's words had been puzzling and disquieting, but she was
in no humor to discuss them now with the Archimage.

Nor was she minded to hear a lecture from her sister, when the White Lady
learned of how she had used the talisman.


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Plodding through deep mud, sopping wet from head to heel and every muscle
aching, the Lady of the Eyes took hold of a thin lanyard about her neck and drew
forth an amulet that had been concealed in her clothing. It glowed faintly golden
and was warm and comforting to the touch, a droplet of honey-amber with a