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because of her keen vision. The nickname had proved prophetic when Kadiya
became the custodian of the Three-Lobed Burning Eye and the protector of the
aboriginal Folk who shared the World of the Three Moons with humankind.

Over the years, Jagun had remained Kadiya's closest friend and deputy.
Sometimes, to her chagrin, he seemed to forget that she was no longer a child,
upbraiding her for her hot temper and occasional woth-headed stubbornness. The
most annoying thing about this habit of his was that he was often in the right.

"You must realize, Farseer," Jagun now said gravely, "that this particular conflict
with the Skritek was far from ordinary. Rora-gath's tale of a lying Star Man must
have been as great a shock to you as it was to me."


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"The notion of the Vanished Ones returning is nonsense," she scoffed. "And only
the Lords of the Air know what manner of prodigy a 'Sky Trillium' might be. As
for the so-called Star Man—"

"What if the worst has happened," Jagun ventured, "and the accursed sorcerer
himself has come back once again from the dead?"

"Impossible! Haramis's own talisman told her that Orogastus had died." Kadiya's
lip curled in disgust. "And my silly sister has wept secretly for his damned soul
ever since."

"Do not mock the White Lady's honest emotion," Jagun said sternly, "especially
when you have never known love's passion yourself. One does not pick and
choose whom to love—as I myself know to my sorrow."

Kadiya looked at him in surprise. For as long as she had known Jagun, he had
had no mate. But this was not the time to question him on such a delicate
subject. "Do you think, then," she asked him, "that Orogastus might have left
others to carry on his impious work? The six acolytes that we know of—the ones
he deemed his Voices—most certainly perished. And no more apprentice
wizards were found when my brother-in-law searched the haunts of Orogastus in
the land of Tuzamen."

"Such persons might have fled from King Antar's justice when news of their
master's doom reached them," Jagun said. "And if they were clever and avoided
the overt use of magic, then they might also have escaped the White Lady's
scrutiny. Not even her Three-Winged Circle can oversee every part of the world,
every moment of the day and night."


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