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The entire mountainside had beenscorched black and barren. ”Hoskiko waved her fingers and caused a folded parchment to appear. Xanthus looked down to see that he had been bound to the chair with his right wrist upturned. She smiled when she saw the revived child.

Let them rest. The late Directorate had tried more than once to wipe outthe corruption, but to no avail. Tristanhad barely escaped with his life. The Ones knew that—they werewatching.