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His voice was shaking with rage. She opened it to show varioushealer’s tools, some of which Tristan was familiar with. “I am Mallory of the House of Esterbrook,” she said. That bag holdstwice the standard fee.

“Duels were once commonplace, weren’t they?” he asked. Einar and Reznik were partly right—the Recluse would be exceedingly difficult to conquer. Einar started to recite Failee’s spell. He was soon standing in a well-lit antechamber just off the hall’s dais.