Vanai changed the subject: Your brother, you said, is a captive? That must be hard for your family. There - you've gone and proved my point, Talsu said. Theoretical sorcery was, after all, about the essential, not the accidentalin which it was surrounded. By the knots of mages Leudast hadseen working along the ley lines, the Zuwayzin had done their best tomake them impassable.
He wanted to hear Mezentio'swords with his own ears, not read them later on or, if he was lucky, catchthem from a crystal some nearby sorcerer was holding. But all the while, the secret stayed in the back of his mind: beingthe second most powerful man in Unkerlant was exactly like being thenext greatest whole number before one. Go tell him right now. That he would allow anyone to bewrong three times struck Rathar as absurd.
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