eveal t;Noand. Finally I understand. My lord, I t you al among men. From t time I sa my first triad Games ty-took you for. ay alive?  from these years?”

    quot;?quot; It riana,  immediately made Devin feel better:  tely treading er here.

    quot;; Baerd said flatly.

    t;to spells not directed specifically at t; Alessan added. quot;true of all magic-users, ing doo this peninsula.”

    quot;And to do ; Sandre dAstibar said in a corrosive voice. urned and jabbed viciously at t fully time and roared into red light.

    quot;I survived,quot; said t;simply because no one kne involved not. I used my po a flicker, since t even use it to feign my deatronger tronger. It ime each of

    t of t o t kno?  good is a finding spell, or a fledgling mental arro leads one straigo a Barbadian deat; tterness in the old Dukes voice.

    quot;Or one of Brandins,quot; Alessan murmured.

    quot;Or Brandins,quot; Sandre ec;It is this land.”

    quot;And it is,quot; said Alessan, quot;or so nearly so as to be thing. I have been searching for a wizard for a dozen years or more.”

    quot;Alessan!quot; Baerd said quickly.

    quot;; t.

    quot;Alessan!quot; Baerd repeated, more urgently.

    t learned to be tigana looked over at ;Not t; ically. quot;Not Sandre dAstibar.”

    urned back to tated, cakable pride, ;You rue. tigana, all t descent, can bind a o to death.”

    For t time a gleam of curiosity, of an actual interest in somet;I do kno story. t I