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"IRIANE!" Haramis called softly into her talisman. "Iriane, do you hear me? I
have very serious tidings to impart to you and I need your advice badly. Please
answer."

But the area within the Three-Winged Circle that she held, looking into it as one
would study a hand mirror, remained a formless swirl of pearly luminescence.
The plump, cheerful, azure-tinted features of the Archimage of the Sea did not
appear.

Haramis frowned in perplexity. "Talisman, can you tell me why Iriane fails to
respond?"

She is shielded by magic.

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"Is she in her own dwelling?"

No. She is in the Hollow Isles, among the Mere Folk of the far west.

"Why does she refuse to bespeak me?" Haramis asked the Circle impatiently.

The question is impertinent.

"Bother! Now I suppose I shall have to go find her." She took up her harp, which
had rested on the carpet beside her, and struck a few slow chords to calm herself
and assist fruitful thought. In a large ceramic pot beside the curtained window
was a huge plant covered with three-petaled flowers as dark as night, and she
gazed upon it and was comforted.

All evening long Haramis, Archimage of the Land, had remained in her study
using the Three-Winged Circle to view the conflict between her sister Kadiya
and the Skritek. Haramis had been both startled and deeply concerned at the
words spoken by the leader of the monsters. No sooner was Kadiya victorious
than Haramis cut away from the scene of the ambush hoping to consult with her
colleague and mentor, the Blue Lady of the Sea.

Not for a moment did the young Archimage of the Land think of dealing with
this present situation all by herself. If another Star Man was at large, bent on
carrying out the schemes of his dead master, then the world was once again in
terrible danger. As for the idea that the Vanished Ones might return, it was so
incredible that Haramis hardly dared to consider it…

"Oh, Iriane!" she exclaimed aloud. "Of all the inconvenient times for you to go